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THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL 

History 



OF THE 



Southern University 



1856-1906 



By Dante/ P. Christenberry 




GREKNSBORO, ALA.: 

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1908 



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BY DANIEL P. CHKISTKNBERRY 



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To My 

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A Tribute. 



It requires great wisdom and industry to 
advance a considerable estate, much art and 
contrivance and pains to raise a great and 
regular building; but the greatest and no- 
blest work in the world, and an effect of the 
greatest prudence and care, is to rear and 
build up a man, and to form and fashion 
him to piety and justice, and temperance, 
and all kinds of honest and worthy action. 
— Tillotson. 



PREFACE 



The sources, for the most part, consulted in the prepa- 
ration of this sketch were : The minutes of the trustees 
from the time of chartering ; the minutes of the Alabama, 
Mobile, and Montgomery Conferences ; the minutes of the 
faculty ; the Alumni minutes ; Fraternity and Literary So- 
ciety minutes ; the Semi-Centennial issue of the Southern 
University "Review and Bulletin" April 15, 1906, F. M. 
Dominick, Editor; Anson West's History of Methodism 
in Alabama; McTyeire's History of Methodism; Irby's 
History of Randolph-Macon College; Jones's History of 
Methodism in Mississippi; the Memorial Record of Ala- 
bama ; the Journal of the General Assembly of Alabama ; 
Conversations with Rev. J. M. Patton, Rev. E. M. Tur- 
ner, R. H. Jackson, Col. Geo. Erwin, Col. L. J. Lawson, 
Dr. S. M. Hosmer, and other persons living and taking 
part in the events recorded. 

I gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Messrs W. 
E. W. Yerby and E. S. Jack in preparing this for press, 
and F. M. Dominick, J. H. Williams, and C. D. Daniels 
for valuable contributions. 

A few articles are included with the authors' names. 




I wish to express my appreciation to the Alumni Asso- 
ciation and to the Faculty for the honor conferred upon 
me by their joint action in appointing me historian for 
this, our Semi-Centennial Occasion. I assure you, that 
while the work has been laborious, it has been pleasant 
— a labor of love. I am not the first to be asked to write 
the history. Several were appointed to write it for An- 
son West's "History of Methodism in Alabama." But 
all who have read the short sketch therein, know that it 
is not from one who was in close touch and sympathy 
with the Institution. 

Some colleges celebrate the chartering; some the lay- 
ing of the corner-stone; some the opening; and some the 
first commencement. Most of them, however, celebrate 
the occasion we are now celebrating — the year of char- 
tering. 

Until very recent times all education was religious, and 
under the control of the priesthood. Secular education 
— so called — is a modern product — an American product 
— not having passed through the experimental stage. In 
all history, France and America are about the only ex- 
amples of the divorcement of education and religion. The 
Revolution was the result in France. Virtually all Asia 
and Europe still cling to the idea that religious instruc- 
tion, is the essential part of education. Judging by the 
amount of blood and treasure — I do not speak ironically 



10 THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 

— spent in America for the founding of schools and col- 
leges under religious auspices, the conviction is still 
strong among us. 

Both Yale and Harvard, now decidedly non-sectarian, 
if not non-religious, were founded by clergymen avowedly 
in the interest of the church. So it was with most of the 
colleges past, as well as of those present. About two- 
thirds of the colleges of America are denominational. 
In the South, according to Henry Nelson Snyder, Presi- 
dent of Wofford College, S. C, there are $7,213,962 more 
invested in denominational colleges and their equipment 
than in those of the State. Of forty-eight per cent of 
these colleges, as tabulated by the Educational Board, 
fifteen are marked "State attitude unfriendly." 

This leads us to seek the genius and spirit that prompt 
the founding of schools owned by the church. The differ- 
ence in the aims of secular and religious schools may be 
seen by a comparison of their charters. 

"Lands are appropriated," says the first charter of 
Alabama, referring to the founding of the State Univer- 
sity, "for the support of a Seminary of learning for the 
promotion of arts, literature, and sciences." Legally no 
attention must be given to morals and religion. In the 
charter of the Southern University, which, also, is a part 
of the Constitution of Alabama, are these words : "The 
Alabama Conference has resolved to establish an institu- 
tion of learning for the promotion of literature, science, 
morality and religion" 

Further distinctive reasons are given for the existence 
of religious schools in the reports adopted by the Alabama 
Conference at its various sessions. 

We quote:— "Its (S. U.) main object is to set God, His 
attributes, and government before the minds of our edu- 
cated young men and fill them with the Spirit of Jesus 
Christ." "The cultivation of the intellect, apart from the 
moral and spiritual, is not an end to be desired." "The 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 11 

Christian College is the bulwark of the Christian 
Church." (A. S. Andrews Chairman of Ed. Com., 1859.) 

"The education which the state gives by its constitu- 
tion is necessarily non-religious." "Rationalism, evolu- 
tion, nondescript scepticism are being widely disseminat- 
ed in various forms." "To counteract this influence is our 
imperative duty." (G. M. Sellers, Chr. Ed. Com. 
1900-01.) 

If these were the only reasons for denominational 
schools, all churches might unite on certain institutions 
and be able to enjoy the advantages found in well-en- 
dowed secular institutions with their great and renown- 
ed faculties, libraries, and costly equipments; but these 
are not the only reasons. They exist not only to inculcate 
the universal principles of religion, but also to emphasize 
some definite phase of truth and faith. This idea is borne 
out in the report written by Dr. A. S. Andrews and adopt- 
ed by the Conference in 1876: — 

"If we would succeed as we ought, we must retain our 
family likeness, and preserve our peculiar faith and prac- 
tice. We must preach them around our firesides, through 
our publications, and in our institutions of learning. In 
all these, and everywhere we should have one faith, one 
standard of experience, and one line of duty. To do this 
we must stand together. The church that does not fur- 
nish educational advantages to its children, will in a few 
generations be a thing of the past." Dr. A. H. Mitchell 
in the sermon, 1855, that inaugurated the movement to 
establish a Conference College, protested that his people 
should not be fed on "the husks of Calvinism." These 
words seem harsh to us of today, yet is not such a senti- 
ment still alive? The Presbyterians are taking up the 
gauntlet at Anniston to guard their people against the 
"husks of Armenianism." 

None believe more in denominational schools than the 
Methodists. Since the founding of Kingswood by Wes- 



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THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 



ley, they have been foremost in the work. They were 
the first to found on American soil colleges, both male 
and female. (A. H. Mitchell.) 

Wesley proposed that his doctrine should live; and he 
organized societies and schools to fix it in the brains and 




DR. ARCHELUS H. MITCHELL. 

Born Clarke Co. Ga., 1807. Graduated University, Ga., 1828. 
President Centenary Male and Female Institute, Summer- 
field, Ala., 1843-'5. Charter memher Board Trustees. 
Served on the Board and attended all the meetings until 
not long before his death at 97 years of age. He was one 
of the church's greatest champions of religious education. 

hearts of his people. This doctrine, as stated by Mc- 
Tyeire's History of Methodism, is as follows : — "The doc- 
trine of conscious conversion, and of a direct witness of 
the Spirit, testifying to the heart of the believer that he 
is the child of God." Rom. 8 :16. As expressed by Charles 
Wesley, — we have it: — 



''No man can truly say that Jesus is the Lord, 

Unless thou take the veil away, and breathe the living Word. 

Then, only then, we feel our interest in His blood, 

And cry with joy unspeakable, Thou art my Lord, my God," 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 13 

In other words the church in her schools would hold 
up to youth spiritual or eternal ideals as opposed to ma- 
terial or temporal. She would minify the money value 
of culture and talent and magnify the service value — 
service not for self, but for humanity. She would teach 
that acquisitiveness is an animal instinct, and should be 
curbed rather than cultivated — that the mind of man 
should find its greatest delights in things sweeter, richer, 
higher, and holier than ease, wealth, and honor. With- 
out these ideals the school under church control is worse 
than useless. 

In 1824 the General Conference adopted a resolution 
recommending that each conference establish a Seminary 
of learning under its regulations and patronage. This 
resolution helps to account for the long list of colleges 
dead and alive along the line of the Church's march. With 
the present population and rapid influx this resolution 
might be wisely carried out notwithstanding the popular 
cry for consolidation, confederation, and unwieldly com- 
bines. 

Five male colleges have been established by the Meth- 
odists of Alabama; LaGrange College, North Alabama; 
Florence Wesleyan University; East Alabama Male Col- 
lege; Southern University; and North Alabama Confer- 
ence College. Of these only one recognized by the Board 
remains as a college — the Southern University. Like- 
wise, of the seven female colleges, only one remains. 
Why these so called failures ? Let Dr. Wadsworth in his 
report, as chairman of the Board of Education, to the 
Conference in 1874, answer: — 

"In former years we stood in the front rank among 
the conferences of the Methodist Church in our regard 
for scientific, literary and religious education. Now we 
fall behind all them that have colleges. This is especially 
afflicting when we consider the many thousands of dol- 
lars collected from our people to establish and conduct 
institutions of learning. Our present embarrassments 



14 THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 

cannot be ascribed to financial troubles, exclusively. We 
must conclude that Boards of Trustees have been unskill- 
ful in the management of this great interest, or that the 
preachers and people do not value as they ought, institu- 
tions of the highest grade. If we cannot produce a more 
lively interest among the preachers and people, we will 
be compelled to reduce all our colleges to the rank of high 
schools, or see them pass into the hands of other people, 
who can and will manage them more skillfully than we 
have done." The same sentiment is borne out by Rev. 
C. L. Chilton, Agent, 1891. He reported to the Confer- 
ence that while there was agitation about uniting or dis- 
uniting with the North Alabama Conference, "endow- 
ment money could not be secured." "The slightest sus- 
picion," he says, "of the perpetuity of the institution will 
turn away endowment money." 

Some may doubt the statement of Dr. Wadsworth that 
our Conference was among the foremost in its regard for 
education — but the statement is true. LaGrange College 
— near Florence, Alabama — organized by the Mississippi 
and Tennessee Conferences, was opened January 11, 1830, 
the first college in Alabama. It was opened one year be- 
fore the Alabama State University; two years before Ran- 
dolph-Macon, Virginia ; seven years before Emory & Hen- 
ry, Virginia; twenty- four years before Trinity College, 
North Carolina ; twenty-one years before Woff ord, S. C. ; 
and sixteen before Howard College, Ala. At the division 
of the Methodist Church it was one of the foremost in the 
United States. Robert Paine — afterwards Bishop — was 
its first President. The faculty were graduates of Yale, 
of the University of Virginia, and of the University of 
North Carolina. In 1851 it had two hundred and twenty- 
five students, $50,000 endowment, and several commodi- 
ous buildings. For twenty-five years it was the leading 
college of the South. Its graduates reached the govern- 
orship, the U. S. Senate, the Supreme Bench, the Bish- 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 15 

opric, and the highest places as professors in the univer- 
sities of America. 

But the church must have a university. LaGrange 
was closed, and in its stead, rose near by, the "Florence 
Wesleyan University." This with two other Methodist 
Colleges was in course of time turned over to the State. 
The Florence Wesleyan became the State Normal School, 
and the East Alabama Male College, founded the same 
year as the Southern University, adopted at the same 
time by the same Conference, or by part of the same, 
passed into the hands of the State, and became the Poly- 
technic Institute at Auburn. The efforts to found Col- 
leges were no more failures, than were the early 
Churches, which went down, failures. Public sentiment 
was created for Christian education, and the self-sacri- 
ficing teachers were putting their stamp on the sturdy 
youth of the land. Let us not think that their loss, as Dr. 
Wadsworth says, was so much mismanagement as the 
sparseness of patronage, change of conditions, and the 
ambition for each locality to have a college. 

LaGrange College was in the Tennessee Conference. 
The Alabama Conference wanted a university. The time 
seemed opportune. The Church had none in the South, 
and this section at this time was, perhaps, the richest on 
the globe. The Southern planter had been educating his 
sons at Yale and Harvard. The "Ministerial Association 
of the Alabama Conference" sent candidates for the min- 
istry and preachers' sons to the Eastern Colleges and Uni- 
versities. ^ The South was able and anxious to found a 
great institution in her own borders, and this she under- 
took to do. For these times with her vast empires of 
cotton plantations, cultivated by millions of contented and 
well-trained slaves, it was no great undertaking, as the 
results will show. 

The movement which led to the founding of the South- 
ern University was begun at the twenty-third session of 



16 THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 

the Alabama Conference, Talladega, Alabama, in 1854. 
The citizens of Auburn and vicinity presented a memo- 
rial, asking for the location of a college in the Alabama 
Conference. It was agreed that the location offering 
$100,000 in good subscriptions should have the prize. A 
commission, lay and clerical, was appointed to raise the 
funds and locate the college, and to report to the next 
Conference. Great enthusiasm was created by an educa- 
tional address made by Landon C. Garland and the ser- 
mon already referred to, by Dr. A. H. Mitchell. (The 
sermon is printed in the Conf. Minutes of that year.) 

The Commission reported at the next conference, 
which met at Eutaw, Alabama, 1855. Auburn offered 
$100,000. Greensboro, then in Greene County, offered 
$300,000, and J. W. Walton, L. Q. C. DeYampert and John 
Erwin were there to increase it if necessary. After a 
three days fierce debate, which engendered strife exist- 
ing to this day, the conference determined to locate the 
college at Greensboro (West). There was no railroad to 
Greensboro at that time. In fact, in those days our fath- 
ers invariably located their colleges remote from great 
thoroughfares and busy marts. 

"A towered city set within a wood, 

Far from the world upon a mountain crest ; 

There storms of life burst not, nor cares intrude ; 

There Learning dwells, and Peace is Wisdom's guest." 

They, in establishing LaGrange, Centenary at Summer- 
field, and the Southern University claimed that retired 
places were more favorable to the producing of solid 
scholarship and clean, strong character. Secular inter- 
ests and questions of convenience, presumably, prompt 
the location of them on railroads. Rev. C. C. Callaway 
was appointed agent to raise funds; Col. Jno. Erwin, 
Rev. L. Q. C. DeYampert and Rev. C. C. Callaway were 
appointed to secure a charter. The Conference recom- 



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mended that the institution be called 'The Southern Uni- 
versity." The institution is only a college now, but the 
name "University" clings to it as only a sentiment. Sev- 
eral times the Alumni Association has requested the 
trustees to change the name to college. The faculty also 
passed a resolution expressing the same desire. 

The Conference appointed as charter members the fol- 
lowing trustees: — Rev. Robt. Paine, Rev. Jas. 0. An- 
drew, Rev. Edward Wadsworth, Rev. Jefferson Hamilton, 





REV. C. C. CALLOWAY. DR> . R. BLUE. 

Agent Southern University He ^ fir l faV g red A " bl * rn as 

1855-1862. Raised $300,- the s lte Seeing it impos- 

000 and more for the ?. lble *° locate the institu- 

Southern University. tion there he led the ma- 

J jority to adopt Greensboro. 

He served long as Trustee 

and Agent. 

Rev. Thos. O. Summers, Rev. Archelus H. Mitchell, Rev. 
Thos. J. Roger, Rev. Christopher C. Callaway, Rev. Jo- 
seph H. Hutchinson, Rev. Joshua L. Heard, Rev. Philip 
P. Neely, Rev. Lucius Q. C. DeYampert, Rev. Henry W. 
Hilliard, Rev. Thos. J. Ramsey, Col. Jno. Erwin, Mr. 
Gideon E. Nelson, Mr. Robt. A. Baker, Mr. Thomas M. 
Johnston, Dr. Gaston Drake, Dr. Wm. T. Webb, Augus- 



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THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 



tus A. Coleman, Esq., Mr. Duke W. Goodman, and Mr. 
Jno. W. Walton. 

While we have not time to introduce in this sketch per- 
sonal history — we will stop long enough to say that only 
one of these is living, Judge A. A. Coleman, of Birming- 
ham, Ala., still presiding over his court with his usual 
ability. Dr. A. H. Mitchell, I am informed, attended 
every meeting of the Board till about 1894. He died a 
year or so ago, ninety-six years of age. 





JUDGE A. A. COLEMAN. 

Only living Charter member 
of Board of Trustees. 



L Q. C. DeYAMPERT. 

A Charter Trustee and one 
of the chief promoters and 
contributors. 



At the first meeting of the Board, March 17th, 1856, 
Col. Erwin, Chairman of the Board, presented the char- 
ter, a notable feature of which is that it prohibits the sale 
of liquor within five miles of the corporation limits. At 
one time the military force was invoked by the President, 
Dr. Smith, to enforce this article. The charter was ve- 
toed by Gov. Winston, because, he said, the general stat- 
ute should be so amended that it would not be necessary 
to encumber the records with pages of useless legislation 



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for the chartering of every school and corporation. All 
such legislation should be included under one general 
law. 

At this meeting $168,500 was reported as having been 
raised in three months' time from only two counties 
(Greene and Sumter.) Dr. Callaway reported that the 
people responded with enthusiasm everywhere. The 
charter subscribers are as follows, according to a list 
held by Dr. Lucius Webb: 




COL. JOHN ERWIN. 

First President of Board of Trustees, who secured the Charter. 

A liberal contributor. 

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L. Q. C. DeYampert, $12,500.00; Jno. Nelson, $12,- 
500.00; Jno. Erwin, $5,000.00; Jno. W. Walton, $5,- 
000.00; Jno. H. Y. Webb, $2,000.00; R. S. Hunt, $1,- 
000.00; A. C. Jones, $1,000.00; Sam'l Cowin, $1,000.00; 
W. T. Webb, $1,000.00; F. M. Peterson, $1,000.00; Gas- 
ton Drake, $1,000.00; I. R. Moore, $1,000.00; G. E. Nel- 



20 THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 

son, $5,000.00; Syd Moore, $1,000.00; R. Seay, $2,000.00 
W. E. Kennedy, $2,000.00; Sam'l Pickens, $500.00; R. G 
Hammel, $500.00; Jesse Hamilton, $250.00; Frank Perry 
$100.00; H. A. Sanborn, $100.00; D. D. Stockton, $500 
W. R. Hardaway, $100.00; Jno. DuBois, $500.00; H. C 
Childress, $300.00; J. T. B. Cocke, $300.00; Samuel Webb 
$300.00; M. R. Lancaster, $100.00; H. B. Dugger 
$500.00; A. C. Hobson, $400.00; E. L. Hobson, $500.00 
A. C. Baker, $200.00; J. C. Mitchell, $200.00; T. R 
Ward, $100.00; J. H. Pool, $100.00; Jas. Buchanan 
$100.00; R. U. DuBois, $200.00; Robt. Johnson, $100.00 
R. Davis, $500.00; Lewis Lawson, $250.00; T. H. Wil- 
liamson, $150.00; Chas. Stewart, $100.00; W. A. Winn, 
$100.00; J. J. Melton, $100.00; A. J. Gibson, $250.00; 
D. Avery, $500.00; W. T. Hutchison, $1,000.00; A. John- 
son, $300.00; J. A. Tallman, $250.00; R. W. Moore, $2,- 
000.00. 

We are informed of other long lists of contributors, but 
it seems that this is the only one now extant. Many 
large contributions have been made in the history of the 
institution, all record of which is lost or inaccessible. 

Bishop Soule and Bishop Andrew made valuable con- 
tributions in books. Bishop Paine gave 1,000 acres of 
land and more. Jno. W. S. Napier gave 5,780 acres of 
land. L. Q. C. DeYampert endowed a chair of Biblical 
literature at a cost of $25,000, and a marble tablet com- 
memorating the same is still in the library room. Col. 
Jno. Erwin gave a large tract of land. That the build- 
ing committee might proceed at once, Messrs. DeYam- 
pert, Nelson, Walton, W. R. Moore, H. R. Hamill and 
R. S. Hunt endorsed for them to the amount of $100,000; 
$6,400.00 was paid for the site. At the meeting of June 
11th, 1857, the corner stone was laid with great cere- 
mony and military display. Col. Jas. McCaleb Wiley, 
Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Alabama Masons, 
Bishops Paine, Andrew, and Pierce, and many other 




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officials and a great concourse of people from adjoining 
counties were present. Col. Wiley and Bishop Pierce 
made addresses. The manuscript of Col. Wiley's Ma- 
sonic speech is preserved in the Southern University 
archives. President Wightman's inaugural address is 
preserved in the Alabama Beacon, March 2, 1860. 
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DR. EDWARD WADSWORTH. 

Born Newbern, N. C. 1881. A. B. Randolph-Macon 1841., D. D., 
Randolph-Macon and Emory Henry 1847. President La- 
Grange College 1846-1852. Prof. Eng. Nashville University 
1853-1855. Prof. Moral Philosophy Southern University 
1859-1871. Died in Greensboro 1883. 

committee, which had formerly been appointed to nomi- 
nate a faculty and prepare a course, made a report as 
to the course of study, etc., as follows : 

1. Chair of Ancient Languages. 

2. Chair of Moral Philosophy. 

3. Chair of Mathematics. 

4. Chair of Biblical Literature. 

5. Chair of Modern Languages. 

6. Chair of Law. 

7. Chair of Natural Philosophy. 



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The report reads further : "Elocution and Composition 
shall be taught through the whole course, and be under 
the direction of the Faculty, and no student shall be 
allowed to take any degree till he shall satisfy the Faculty 
of his capacity to write his own language with correct- 
ness." "Since it is the policy to pay equal salaries to 
the professors, and since some of the professorships are 
known to be more laborious than others, it shall be the 
duty of the professors to adopt a plan to equalize the 
labor by assisting one another.*' 





N. T. LUPTON, 
Prof. Chemistry, 1859-71. 



J. C. WIIXS, 
Prof. Mathematics, 1859-71. 



It has ever been the policy of the trustees to select 
men of broad and liberal education, rather than mere 
specialists. Several of the first Faculty filled other 
chairs. Dr. Landon C. Garland, professor in the State 
University, was first elected President. He declined, and 
a committee was appointed to secure a President and 
Faculty. However, at this meeting Dr. Lupton and Dr. 
Wadsworth were secured. Dr. Lupton was sent to Eu- 
rope to study methods at Berlin and other places, and 



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THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 



to purchase chemical apparatus to the amount of $2,000. 
Many other resolutions were passed, one of which was: 
"That the Faculty of the University shall hold their 
several offices subject to control of the Trustees, and 
neither the President nor any one of the professors shall 
be removed at any time except by a vote of two-thirds 
of the whole number of the Trustees composing the 
Board, and no professor shall be at liberty to resign 
without the leave of the Board, unless such resignation 



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PROF. O. F. CASEY. 



Born Newberry, S. C, 1824. Graduated LaGrange College, Ala., 
1849. Prof. Math, and afterward Prof. Ancient Languages 
in Alma Mater 1849-1859. Prof. Ancient Languages South- 
ern University 1859-1876. Died in Auburn, Ala., 1897. 

be made at the end of the session, and after at least three 
month's notice shall have been given in writing to the 
President of the Board." This rule has not always been 
observed. 

The college opened its doors October, 1859. Dr. An- 
drews, President of the Board of Education at the time, 
made the following report to the Alabama Conference 



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of 1859: "The Collegiate Department was inaugurated 
on the first Wednesday of October, in the presence of a 
large and delighted auditory. The officers elected by the 
Trustees were in attendance. Fifty students have ma- 
triculated. All assets amount to $320,000. Resolved, 
that the Alabama Conference fully endorse the proposi- 
tion of the Trustees of the Southern University to in- 
crease its assets to $500,000, for the purpose of making 




BISHOP WM M. WIGHTMAN, 

First President S. U. Born in Charleston, S. C., grad- 
uated in S. C. College. Prof. Lit. and Rhet. Randolph- 
Macon, President Wofford, Editor So Christian Advocate, 
President S. U. 1858-'68, Bishop 1866, died 1882. 



it a University indeed. Your committee recommends 
that visiting committees be appointed to make thorough 
examinations into the conditions of the institution and 
report to this body." Neither in the minutes of the Con- 
ference, nor in those of the Trustees is recorded the mem- 
bership of the Faculty for the various years, and there 
is no file of the catalogue earlier than from 1884. The 
minutes of the Faculty up to 1903 are lost, but by various 
means we find the Faculty for the first year as follows: 



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THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 



Wm. M. Wightman, Biblical Literature; J. C. Wills, A. 
M., Mathematics; Thos. M. Lupton, A. M., Chemistry; 
Edward Wadsworth, A. M., Moral Philosophy; 0. F. 
Casey, A. M., Ancient Languages ; J. A. Reubelt, Hebrew 
and Modern Languages; Thos. A. Gatch was afterwards 
elected Professor of Mathematics. Professor Casey was 
the last of these to retire from the institution. Wonder- 
ful stories come down to us regarding the accurate and 
wide scholarship, deep piety and profound religious faith 





J. V. GLASS. B. M. HUEY. 

First Graduates of S. U., 1860. 



of these men. The old boys say that Professor Casey 
would repeat Virgil page by page for their amusement 
as well as for their delectation. It was said that French 
was natural to the tongue of Dr. Wightman. Professors 
Wills and Casey were great favorites with the students. 
Professor Reubelt, one of the most popular members 
among the boys, it seems, handed in his resignation on 
the instigation of Dr. Wadsworth, who detected views in 
morals and religion not in harmony with those of the 
Church. Only one other similar case, so far as this his- 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 27 

torian knows, occurred in the history of the College,— 
that of Thos. 0. Summers. However, he was accepted 
at Vanderbilt, and went afterwards totally awry. T. D. 
Mitchell succeeded him. 

The first annual commencement was held July 4, 1860. 
Benj. M. Huey, formerly of Emory College, and Jas. V. 
Glass, of Pickens County, were the graduates. Huey 
died 1906; Mr. Glass, a business man of Birmingham, 
and B. M. Huey, an attorney of Marion, Ala. A record 
of the Alumni is being written by Professor C. P. Atkin- 
son, but I cannot refrain from saying that Col. Huey 
introduced the first bill in the Alabama Legislature, look- 
ing to the founding of a Woman's Industrial School in 
Alabama. Another Alumnus, J. D. Ellis, late of the Ala- 
bama Advocate, made the first public address favoring it, 
and it is but poetic justice— that four of our Alumni are 
('96) connected with it,— Dr. F. M. Peterson, President; 
J. Alexander Moore, and Miss Minna Grote, Professors; 
and D. L. Wilkinson, College Physician. (Pardon this 
digression, but it would be much like writing the history 
of the good side of our State, and much of that of other 
States, to write the history of the Alumni.) The first 
graduate in a school was R. H. Jackson, Greensboro, 
Ala., graduate in Chemistry. The Degree of three schools 
was often conferred. 

The career of the Southern University was begun un- 
der most glowing prospects, but the war cloud burst 
upon it. Nothing less than a revolution occurred. Her 
history for the next fifteen years is the history of com- 
merce, agriculture, education, of the whole Southland,— 
a history of struggle for existence. 

The students, and some of the Faculty, notably Pro- 
fessor Gatch, after military drill, mildly condemned by 
the Trustees, left for the war. The large vacant rooms 
were hiding places for owls, bats, refugees, and deserters ; 
of the latter thrilling tales are told. At times no classes at 



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THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 



the opening could be formed, but there were a few stu- 
dents every year. The trustees met annually. The Fac- 
ulty held their positions, though teaching in other schools, 
and doing other work to supplement their income. At 
times the entire annual income of the College was hardly 
$1,000. A productive endowment of $200,000, before 
the war, had all been swept away, lands, houses, and 
notes, which, when given, were as good as gold. 




REV. JEFFERSON HAMILTON, D. D. 

Charter Trustee, Agent. Born 1805, Mass. Died at Opelika, 1874. 
When dying he said to his children: ''Stick to the church — 
I mean the Methodist Church — for this is the form of re- 
ligion which is to convert and save the world." 



Reconstruction was almost as hard as the period of 
war. In 1867, the agent, the Rev. Mr. Callaway, reported 
that $171,810.66 in notes was placed in his hands. Of 
this amount $4,683 was collected in cash, $16,000 was 
renewed, $40,000 was classed as possibly good and $75,- 
000 as worthless. The magnificent endowment had been 
swept away, leaving the school a lot cf worthless paper 
which was carried upon the books for years. The build- 
ings were intact and free from debt. 



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29 




HAMILTON HALL. 



In 1867 Dr. Wightman was elected Bishop, but by the 
request of the Trustees he held on till arrangements 
could be made to fill his place. Drs. Wadsworth and Lup- 
ton acted as chairman till 1870, when Dr. A. S. Andrews 
was elected chancellor. 

The Departments of Law, Medicine and Theology were 
opened, but were of short duration. Drs. F. M. Peter- 
son, R. Inge, and T. 0. Summers taught in the Medical 
Department. Drs. Osborne, A. A. Coleman, Thos. Seay, 
and J. J. Garrett assisted in the Law School. There were 
several graduates in Theology and Medicine. Some com- 
pleted the Law Course, but none graduated. A. H. 
Moore, and Wm. Murrah — now President of Millsaps 
College — studied Law. F. M. Peterson took the Degree 



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THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 



of B. D. in Theology. Richie Briggs, it was said, could 
repeat Rawlston by heart. 

In the efforts to unite other Conferences, Dr. Jefferson 
Hamilton, chairman of the commission, reported to the 
Conference, "that the commission was unfortunately 
constituted, as some members were personally interested 
in one locality or another." 

During these dark days when the College was being 
sued for foreign debts, secured by mortgages on lands 




DR. LUTHER M. SMITH. 

Born Oglethorpe Co. Ga., 1826. Graduated at Emory College, Ga., 
1848. President Emory, Chancellor So. University, 1875 
until his death in Birmingham, 1879. 



and buildings, the Faculty unpaid, all the $200,000 en- 
dowment swept away, and the scholarships therewith 
connected, the main building seems to have been all that 
was saved from the wreck. 

Dr. Andrews twice urged his resignation before its 
acceptance. Dr. Luther M. Smith of Georgia, was then 
elected chancellor. He refused the position unless cer- 
tain guarantees of substantial support were made. 
$7,550 was due the Faculty. A compromise was urged, 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 



31 




T. D. MITCHELL, 
Prof Chemistry, 1874-76. 





J. S. HOPKINS. 
Prof. Science 1876-78. 



C. M. VERDEL, 
Prof. Science, 1876-81. 



32 THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 

and all accepted it unconditionally, except Dr. J. S. 
Moore. The Trustees' minutes show the conditions. Dr. 
Smith agreed to take the position if allowed to select 
his own Faculty, the Trustees guaranteeing $25,000. The 
conditions were met. He was a man of means, but said 
if he had millions he would not give a dime unless the 
endowments were made inalienable. Ever afterwards 




F. M. PETERSON, M. D. 

President of Board of Trustees many years. A liberal contributor. 
By personal guarantees he saved the Institution more than 
once. 

this became the financial creed of the institution. Noth- 
ing was ever to bind the College property, but expenses 
for repairs. Thus the policy inaugurated by Dr. Smith, 
though it may have sacrificed the rights of individuals, 
it saved the institution. Under this policy the Faculty 
received at times little more than half their salary. Thus 
the Faculty, however well educated, have never been 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 



33 



able to do ideal work for the want of funds to keep them- 
selves supplied with standard and current literature, and 
to enjoy the advantages of travel, and contact with 
scholars at home and abroad. Dr. Smith demanded a 
payment of all debts and a complete rehabilitation. 

The Trustees appointed a committee consisting of F. 
M. Peterson, M. D., Madison Jones, and J. H. Y. Webb, 
to raise the required $25,000. This band of martyrs 
went out— it was not the first time the Trustees had 




DR. JNO. S. MOORE. 

Prof. Mathematics 1871-84. 
Acting as President part 
of the time. Had the In- 
stitution transferred to 
the Conference. 




DR. JOSIAH LEWIS. 

Prof. Emory College, Ga. 
Prof. Eng. Southern Uni- 
versity 1875-1880. Presi- 
dent S. U. 1880-1881. 



faced despair— and raised $20,000. Dr. Smith not 
yielding from his first proposition— the committeemen, 
who had already subscribed $300 each, endorsed for the 
rest, and the College was again on the way to pros- 
perity. While there are many worthy and liberal con- 
tributors connected with the history of the institution 
that cannot now be listed, yet none will complain of 



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THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 



partiality, if we mention the names of those who at this 
juncture saved a lost cause, and started the College on 
its upward course again. They are as follows: Dr. F. 
M. Peterson, D. J. Castleman, W. G. Miller, Jack Pow- 
ers, J. J. Peterson, Lawson & Son, W. H. Locke, B. 
Steinhart, Jno. S. Tucker, W. W. Jones, W. T. Black- 
ford, W. W. & E. A. Powers, H. J. Walker, W. R. Smaw, 
Ed Huclobse, Alice Royal, B. G. Abernathy, S. Robert- 
son, Chas. E. Waller, Jno. G. Harvey, A. A. Coleman, 




PROF. FRANCIS MARION 
PETERSON D. D. 

Boi-n Greensboro Ala. B. 
D. and A. M. S. U. 1874 
Prof. Ancient Languig:s 
1879-T9 Acting President 
S U. 1881-1883 again 
1898-'99. President Girls' 
Industrial School 1899, 
until his death, 1907. 




PROF. C. A. GROTE. 

A. M. Southern University 

1875. Prof. Science and 
Modern Languages S. U. 

1876, until his death, 1894 
Acting as President when 
there were no funds to 
pay one. 



S. W. Chadwick, Jno. H. Atkins, Jos. Atkins, Jno. At- 
kins, D. T. Webster, James M. Hobson, Jno. E. DuBois, 
J. N. Sledge, F. F. Hill, J. E. Webb, Jas. B. Coleman, A. 
M. Avery, H. A. Stollenwerck, W. H. Sanborn, T. B, 
Randolph, A. C. Jones, J. Hamilton, Wm. H. Lavender, 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 



35 



R. Inge. The records from the first shine with names like 
these. These subscriptions ranged from $10 to $300 each. 
Although at this time the assets of the College were $112,- 
085, Dr. Smith said without this aid the University 
would have closed its doors. 

After the death of Dr. Smith, during the years 1880-83 
Dr. Josiah Lewis, Professor of English, and Prof. F. M. 
Peterson, Professor of Ancient Languages, were acting 




DR. ALLEN S. ANDREWS 

Born Randolph Co. N. C, 1822. Graduated Trinity College N C 
President Greensboro Female College N. C 1850 ' Pr' M i' 
dent S. U. 1870-1874, 1883-1894. Died at Union Sprint 

l0i70. 

Presidents, except an interval in which Dr. J. S. Moore 
presided over the Faculty. 

By request of Dr. Moore the charter was so changed 
that the property, which had been in the hands of the 
Trustees, should be fee simple property of the Alabama 
Conference. Notwithstanding the heroic efforts of 



36 THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 

Professors Peterson and Grote, who for awhile were 
alone in 1883, affairs again became desperate. Suits 
were being pushed against the institution for heavy 
debts. Under the decree of the courts, Hamilton Hall, a 
boarding hall, and the President's house were sold, and 




JUDGE P. G. WOOD. 

President of Board of Trustees until his death. When funds were 
short he personally guaranteed the President's salary, and 
saved the life of the Institution in its last struggle between 
life and death. 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 



37 



the institution cleared of debt. In this condition, by 
request of the Alumni Association, Dr. Andrews, who 
had tided it over in the dark days of the seventies, by 
the guarantee of Judge Wood, was again elected Presi- 




Prof. English and History, 
1883-84. 




J. F. STURDIVANT. 

Prof. English, 1885-90. 



C. L. McCARTHA. 
Prof. English, 1890-92. 



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THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 



dent, and elected for a term of five years, the only 
time on record when such action was taken by the Board. 
The report to the Conference of 1883 states that a 
union had been effected between the Alabama and the 
North Alabama Conferences by the cession of one-half 
interest to the North Alabama Conference. Dr. An- 
drews accepted the position with the understanding that 
all the assets and funds should be in his hands, and that 
he should select his own Faculty, and be solely respon- 
sible to them for their salaries. His Faculty were: F. 
M. Peterson, Ancient Languages; C. A. Grote, Science 
and Modern Languages, and Book-keeping; J. A. Moore, 
Mathematics; L. C. Dickey, English Literature; Rosco 




W. C. McCOY. 
As Agent he raised thousands of dollars for endowment and 
buildings. 

McConnell, Assistant Professor of Ancient Languages. 

Professor McConnell was the only teacher in the his- 
tory of the College, so far as is known, not a church 
member. He was a high type of gentleman. He re- 
mained only a year or so. 

With Dr. Andrews as President and Dr. W. C. McCoy 



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THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 




DR. J. 0. KEENER. 

Many years a Trustee. President 1894 until his death, 1898. 

as Agent, the College made rapid growth in all lines. 
The buildings formerly owned and sold, if not the lands, 
were bought back, other buildings were erected and all 
repaired, and large amounts added to the endowment 
and equipment. The number of students reached the 
highest in its history, 235. 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 41 

On account of failing health, in 1894, Dr. Andrews 
resigned, and Dr. J. 0. Keener was then elected Presi- 
dent. He inaugurated a new financial policy — that of 
prorating the income between the President and the 
Faculty. Heretofore the President's salary was not 
definitely based upon income, as usually was the case 
with those of the Faculty. This does not mean that the 
Presidents always received their stipulated salaries. 
For example, at the close of Dr. Andrews' first year of 
his second administration, he had only received $200, 
and at other times it is recorded that he suffered loss 
with the Faculty. During most of the history the Col- 
lege Presidents' salary was fixed at $2,000, and that of 
the Professors $1,500, but rarely ever paid, in full. 

Under Dr. Keener the productive endowment was 
greatly increased, though there was a falling off in in- 
come by the withdrawal of the North Alabama Confer- 
ence in 1898. Yet at no time under his administration 
did the Faculty fail to receive their stipulated salaries. 
The stipulated salaries, however, were less than those 
formerly offered. The first record of salaries paid in 
full was made under his administration, due not only to 
his own good management, but undoubtedly to that of 
predecessors in his office, and the able Boards of Trus- 
tees, as well as to the general progress in the develop- 
ment of the State's resources. 

In 1902 Geo. M. Sellers reported as Chairman of the 
Conference Board a productive endowment of $35,000 
and annual income of $10,000. 

All are familiar with the improvements in buildings 
and repairs made by Dr. Keener. He raised in Greens- 
boro at one time about $4,000. The new chapel is the 
product of his energy and taste. He gave credit to "Pro- 
fessor" Henry Peck, the janitor, for the amphitheatrical 
design of the chapel. 



DR. S. M. HOSMER. 
Born Jefferson Co Ala., 1846. Trustee 1883-1899. President 1899. 



44 THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 

Dr. Keener died in the middle of the session, 1898-99, 
but his work was divided among the Faculty, as in the 
case of the sickness of Prof. Grote, Dr. Andrews, Dr. 
Shoaff, and during the typhoid epidemic of 1902-03, 
when Professors E. L. Colebeck, E. L. Brown, and D. P. 
Christenberry were all sick and the salaries paid over to 
the respective families. 

After the death of Dr. Keener, Prof. F. M. Peterson 
was appointed President until the election of Dr. S. M. 
Hosmer. 

It is useless to mention here the progress under Dr. 
Hosmer's administration. His watch-word has been 
"Up-to-date." 

A modern library, the card system, a modern curricu- 




DR. J. S. FRAZER. 

Present Financial Agent, who, without surrendering his personal 
work, has raised large amounts for improvements and en- 
dowment 

lum, the elective system, 1900; a modern system of dis- 
cipline; a modern scientific department; a modern board- 
ing hall; a chair of modern languages; modern methods 



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THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 



of business and business office ; and a modern gymnasium 
building, the second building on the campus in the his- 
tory of the institution, have all been installed. 

During the twentieth century movement through Drs. 
Lamar and Frazer, and through the Alumni Associa- 
tion, and other friends, $44,000 were added to the en- 
dowment. Wise investments have been made, and con- 
siderable property has been recovered which had been 
lost sight of, ar.d upon the whole, the affairs of the 
institution are on a firm basis. The present endowment 
is $75,000, of which $25,000 is not yet productive. All 
assets amount to $210,000. 





PROF. E. K. TURNER, 
Ph. D. 



PROF. L. P. GIDDENS. 



At the Alabama Conference, Eufaula, 1906, the ques- 
tion of reuniting the two Conferences on one College was 
agitated, but no action was taken. 

We cannot close this brief and imperfect sketch with- 
out referring to some other important matters. 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 



47 





PRCF J. T LITTLETON. REV. J W. SHOAFF, D D. 





PROF. E. L. COLEBECK. 



PROF. BURT P. RICH- 
ARDSON. 



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THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 




REV. C P. ATKINSON 





PROP". U. M KEY PROF. F. F. CHAPMAN 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 



49 





R. L WILLIAMS, T. J. HAPPEL, A. M., 

Supreme Judge of Oklahoma, ' 66 ' M ' D -' 

Chief Author of the Con- President Tennessee Medical 

stitution. Association. 





WM. B. INGE, A. M., '68. W. B. MURRAH, A. B., 74, 

Extensive Planter. President Millsaps College. 

GROUP OF PROMINENT ALUMNI. 



50 THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 

RELIGIOUS AIMS. 

The Trustees and Faculty have ever held the real pur- 
pose of the institution in view. Nearly every annual 
report contains the words "a great and gracious revival." 
At times the students were Christian workers almost to a 
man. In the early days prayers were held in chapel 
both morning and afternoon. Singing was added in the 
'90's. Class meetings were held by the President or 
Faculty on Friday afternoons, and prayer meetings on 
Sundays by the students. Love feasts were held Sun- 
day afternoons of Commencement Day. A story of a 
new student under these conditions would be interesting 
and suggestive: A boy innocent of prayers and Bible 
study, after being here two or three days said to his 
room-mate: "I am disgusted; I did not come here to 
attend prayers all day and read the Bible; I came to 
study school-books. I am going up stairs to that Fac- 
ulty, cuss 'em out, and go where they teach school and 
study son ethin' else besides the Bible." His room-mate 
told him that "He'd get enough to do, just wait till all 
his work was assigned." He became an excellent stu- 
dent, joined the church, succeeded as a business man, 
afterwards became a steward of the M, E. Church, and 
a Trustee of this institution, and one of the most en- 
thusiastic Bible students in the country. He knows not 
to this day what the Southern University had to do 
with it. 

1887, through the efforts of J. D. Simpson, adjunct 
professor of Ancient Languages, and Luther Smith, a 
student, a room was secured and furnished in the main 
building for the Young Men's Christian Association. 
This was the beginning of systematic work among the 
students. Bible and Mission classes were afterwards 
organized, committees were appointed for all phases of 
the work — welcome committees, membership commit- 
tees, financial, devotional, etc., have been organized from 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 



51 





J A. MOORE. 



REV. F. P. CULVER. 





DR. J H McCOY. PRCF T. A. TAYLOR. 

GROUP OF PROMINENT ALUMNI. 



52 THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 

time to time. It has been the aim to send every boy 
home an enthusiastic, trained, Christian worker. 

LITERARY CULTURE. 

The institution has always emphasized literary cul- 
ture, as is shown by the large proportion of language 
study in the curriculum, and by emphasis placed upon 
composition work, as before referred to by the action 
of the Trustees. 

"The Southern University Monthly" was established 
April, 1885. Its organizers and first editors were: 
Percy G. Wood, Jr., L. C. Branscomo, C. A. Rush, W. 
F. Andrews, and D. P. Christenberry, all students. In 
1902 it became "The Review and Bulletin." It is the 
organ of the two literary societies, and serves as a great 
incentive to literary efforts. In 1891 "The Alumni An- 
nual" with Dr. J. A. Moore as editor, was issued, but 
its life was of short duration. 

THE LIBRARY. 

From the very first the institution has maintained a 
good collection of standard works and magazines. Until 
1899 three separate libraries were maintained, those 
of the two literary societies and that of the College. At 
this time all libraries were united in what was formerly 
the Preparatory Room, and the modern card catalogue 
system was inaugurated. This system was inaugurated 
and put into operation by Misses Maria and Loula Hos- 
mer. 

The library is kept open from four to eight hours 
per day. The oversight of the library is entrusted to a 
committee of the Faculty, the chairman of which is the 
Librarian. The Assistant Librarian for many years was 
a student, in recent years, however, a lady has held this 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 



53 





P. G. WOOD. 

(Chief Editor) 



C, A. RUSH. 




W. F. ANDREWS. 



Three of the founders and first Editors of Southern University- 
Monthly, now issued as Review and Bulletin. 



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THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 





L. C. BRANSCOMB. D, P. CHRISTENBERRY. 

Two of the founders of Southern University Monthly. 

position. The library is maintained by a fee charged 
each student, and by donations of money and books. A 
few notable gifts have been received. Besides the 
splendid gifts of J. S. Napier and L. Q. C. DeYampert, 
and Bishop Soule at the time of founding, many gifts 
have been made since : Judge P. G. Wood gave his library 
in his lifetime. Dr. Chas. Ross gave his by will. A 
large number of books were received by Bishop Andrew 
after his death. The Alumni and other friends add books 
annually. The estimated number of volumes at present 
is eight thousand. The library possesses some very rare 
and valuable volumes that perhaps can be found no 
where else, especially a set of volumes on the American 
Indian with life-like cuts of the famous chiefs. 

A few Librarians : J. C. Hill, '84-'85, J. D. Griffin, Prof. 
O. C. Hand, W. C. Hamilton, W. C. Watson, S. C. Meigs, 
F. E. Porter, Mrs. J. A. Baxley, Miss Maria Hosmer, 
Miss Willie Walton, Dr. J. A. Moore, Miss Annie Locke, 
D. P. Christenberry. 



56 THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 

PUBLIC SPE4KING. 

Public speaking has always been a prominent feature 
of the institution. This work is carried on by the Belles 
Lettres and Clarioscophic Societies, and by the weekly 
declamations before the Faculty and students. Both of 
these institutions, the literary societies, and the depart- 
ment of public speaking, have existed from the first. 
Public exhibitions as anniversaries, oratorical contests, 
have existed also from the earliest times. The rule has 
been that no one shall graduate until he shall have de- 
livered, at least four original addresses before the Fac- 
ulty and students. The methods of special criticism and 
special training practiced have not failed of results, as 
a few recent honors of the Alumni will show : S. C. 
Meigs was class orator in Mobile Medical College. Drs. 
G. C. Chapman and E. B. Ward were the orators before 
their medical associations. Jas. M. Hobson, Jr., won all 
the honors in oratory on all three of the annual occasions 
at West Point while he was there. H. M. Dobbs and 
Frank Seay won the contests at Vanderbilt both in com- 
position and oratory. S. A. Hobson won highest honors in 
oratory and composition in Columbian Law School, Wash- 
ington, D. C. Ethel Allen won contests at Southwestern 
Presbyterian University, both local and intercollegiate. R. 
E. Sessions won the same for Trinity College and. South- 
ern University. E. E. Cobbs won the honors at the 
University of the South, Sewanee. Howard Sadler was 
the orator of Annapolis, and represented his crew in an 
address on landing in England. J. A. Baxley won the 
intercollegiate contest for the Southern University, and 
John McDuffie, trained at the Southern University, after- 
wards won it for Auburn. Last, but not least, one of the 
greatest living orators, won the honors of his class at 
the Southern University and imperishable fame before 
the American people — Richmond Pearson Hobson. 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 57 




RICHMOND PEARSON HOBSON, Ph. D. 

A distinguished Alumnus, Agent of Alumni in Endowing the Chair 
of History. Member of Congress. 



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THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 




SEVENTEEN SIXTEENS, 1908. 

1, Clara Young; 2, Helen Martin; 3 Mattie Dominick; 4, Bectie 
Chapman; 6, Fannie Walker; 7, Mabel Williams; 8, Dorothy 
McFadden; 9, Alberta Overstreet; 10, Mary Lawson; 11, Cap- 
itola deBardeleben; 12, Josie Walker; 12, Margaret Jones; 14, 
Mary Straiton; 15, Bessie Dominick; 16, Margaret Erwin; 17, 
Lell Grote. 

CO-EDUCATION. 

Miss Julia Tutwiler, (in 1868) asked for women 
the right of matriculation, and was refused. She came 
anyway; she asked for degrees, and was voted against; 
she took them anyway. Later she sought entrance 
without examination, and was refused; she entered any- 
way. The institution now numbers eight women among 
her full graduates — Miss Margaret Pickett taking A. B. 
in 1897, was the first to win this honor. She is a niece 
of Miss Tutwiler. 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 



59 



HONORED NAMES. 

It would take volumes to record the honors and 
merits of the long list of worthies connected with the 
history of the Southern University as Trustees, contribu- 
tors, agents, instructors, both collegiate and sub-col- 
legiate, superintendents of Hamilton Hall, students, and 
graduates. How could the struggle of C. C. Callaway, 
who raised over $300,000 for the College, Jefferson 
Hamilton, W. I. Powers, O. R. Blue, W. C. McCoy, J. O. 
Andrew, C. L. Chilton, A. J. Lamar, J. S. Frazer, and 
scores of other agents be worthily recorded, together 
with Dr. F. M. Peterson, A. H. Mitchell, J. H. Y. Webb, 




HENRY PECK. 

"Professor of Ash, Broom, and Scuttle Department," 42 years. 

Jno. Erwin, Gideon Nelson, J. J. Garrett, P. G. Wood, 
L. Q. C. DeYampert, Madison Jones, the Stollenwercks, 
Bishops Paine, Soule, Pierce, Wightman, Keener, Gal- 
loway, Candler, all of whom raised large amounts of 
money — all these and more just as worthy, — I say how 
shall we justly record their labors and their honors? 
Their portraits should be on these walls, their busts in 



60 THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 

niches in these rooms, and marble and bronze statues 
of them should be on this campus. If we do not honor 
our noble dead, we need not expect a noble history in 
the future. Among all these there is one name we shall 
not omit — that of Henry Peck, Janitor for forty and 
more years. His influence on the lives of the students 
and even on the President and Faculty has been greater 
than any one will ever know. When this faithful Negro 
lays down scuttle, broom, and duster, a marble shaft 
should rise upon this campus, or better still, "The Henry 
Peck Janitorship" should be endowed by his long list 
of friends and admirers. 



SIDE LIGHTS. 

The long years of struggle, gloom, imd blood through 
which the Institution has passed, have not been without 
their "side lights." "All work and no play makes Jack 
a dull boy," is the bright side of college life. 

While hazing has never been practiced in the institu- 
tion to any extent, the boys have often tried to work 
off their surplus vitality in the main at the expense of the 
Faculty. The system of espionage and reporting 
which prevailed until recent years was, no doubt, partly 
responsible for the lack of sympathy and fellowship be- 
tween Faculty and student, and strengthened the desire 
for revenge upon the unduly exacting professors. Among 
these men of law and order may be mentioned Profes- 
sors Wadsworth, Lupton, J. A. Moore, and others. How- 
ever, these shrewd and worthy Doctors were most fre- 
quently more than a match for the youthful tricksters, 
as the following stories will illustrate: 

The hiding of the Professors' buggies, even in the 
primitive days was a stock joke. Among those who had 
a tempting vehicle was Dr. Wadsworth. It reached the 
Doctor's ears that on a certain night his buggy was to 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 61 

make a trip to the woods. The grave preceptor, not alto- 
gether devoid of fun himself, conceived the idea of join- 
ing the happy party. Clothing himself befitting the 
chilly night, he retired cozily behind the close curtains, 
and was soon scurrying along the shadowy highway be- 
hind his fleet-footed, thorough-bred bipeds. At length the 
desired retreat was reached. The steaming roadsters, 
panting for breath, began to loose the simple harness, 
when from the tightly fitting curtains came the quiet, 
familiar voice of the learned Doctor: "You may take 
me back, now, boys. This will do. I will say nothing 
about it." 

The Doctor was not so fortunate at another time. The 
hour for declamation had arrived, and, at least one 
faint-hearted victim was not ready. Seeing the Doctor 
busy in his room, the truant speaker stealthily locked 
him in, and left the key outside. There was no declama- 
tion that afternoon, but a crusty voice from a second- 
story window wooed the smiling and polite lad to the 
Doctor's prompt release. 

On one of these dreaded occasions back in the sixties 
when the blood of the young American was hot and 
would dare anything when one of these sons of thunder 
was moving his audience to tears with — 
"I am dying Egypt Dying 
Ebbs the crimson life-tide fast" 
a stream of poke berry juice from above deluged him and 
his immaculate linen blood-red, hem and skirt. And an- 
other Declamation exercise was brought to a happy close. 

Dr. Lupton received the compliments of the young men 
on this wise : From time immemorial it was a custom for 
the Faculty to make weekly reports of the misdemeanors 
of those of their several sections. On one occasion when 
all the Faculty had finished their reports, Jno. Keener, 
a student, tall and dignified, rose and with the solemnity 
of the gravest professor, read : "I report Dr. Lupton for 
failure in chemistry on the sixth." The joke was soon 



62 THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 

fully appreciated when it was learned that the great 
chemist had made a flash in one of his experiments be- 
fore his class. The usual reference and demerits had 
little effect on the jolly face of young Keener. 

Dr. J. A. Moore met what the boys called condign jus- 
tice on one April Fool's night at Hamilton Hall. Shouts 
of "Murder! Kill him! Oh!" startled him from above. 
Rushing out from his room, and down the long hall he 
reached the first step to the stairs when the contents of 
a bath-tub came full upon his naked head. Dr. An- 
drews, having heard the shouts and cries, was on the 
scene in an instant, crying, "What's the matter? What's 
the matter?" Moore, drenched from head to foot, 
meekly returning to his room, curtly answered, "A 
prank! A prank! Only a prank." 

The story of how John 0. Keener stole a diploma, filled 
it out for the A. M. Degree, had it signed by all the Fac- 
ulty and Trustees and delivered to J ;he Janitor, Henry 
Peck, is to all a familiar tradition about the campus. He 
is as proud of his diploma as any man that received 
one from the President on the platform. 

Many tales might be told to lighten the tedium of dull 
history illustrative of the terrors of the old espionage 
system of the by-gones. Hair-breadth escapes from the 
professors, marvelous foot-races, vengeful pranks, and 
April-fool escapades, etc. But all is different now. The 
government is fraternal and paternal. Boys are trusted. 
Their word is taken absolutely, and thus responsibility 
is put where it counts for most. 

ATHLETICS. 

During a larger part of the history of the institu- 
tion, the students have had few restrictions as to their 
games and sports. In the main, intercollegiate games 
of base-ball and tennis have been permitted under cer- 
tain regulations, such as requiring certain grades of the 
players, and the written consent of the parents, etc. In- 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 63 

14 41 fa 








BASEBALL TEAM, 1904. 

Jim Hamilton; R. B McGehee (Capt.) Dan Littlepage; E. B. 
Dunlap (Coach); Archie McDonald; W. O. Turmpseed; B. 
Jones; Bestor Ward; V. P. Cherry; P. D. McGehee; G. Kn- 
lough; Clinton Howard; F. E. Hastings (Mgr.) 

tercollegiate games of foot-ball are thought too violent and 
have been prohibited. There is still much division of 
opinion as to the value of these games, considering the 
loss of time and danger to life and morals. Both views 
were thoroughly discussed by Andrew Sledd and J. E. 
McCann in "The Southern University Review and Bul- 
letin" November, 1903. 

On the erection of the Gymnasium a certain number 
of hours each week is required. The open-air sports 
seem to be entered into with more enthusiasm than the 
indoor gymnastic practice, and hence it is perhaps more 
profitable as health-giving relaxation and invigoration 
of mind and body. 



64 THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 

GYMNASIUM. 

The new gymnasium building is 67x74 feet, extreme 
dimensions. On either side of the main building at the 
front are two smaller rooms used for shower baths and 
store room. The front is cut off for dressing and locker 
rooms, and an office for the gymnasium instructor. 
Above these rooms is a visitors' gallery. The building 
is a frame, veneered with brick. 

The equipment is modern and adequate. Besides dumb 
bells, wands, barbells, and Indian clubs, apparatus for 
heavier work, such as climbing rope, triplicate wall ma- 
chine, horse, wall and horizontal bar, suspended bar, 
horizontal ladder, parallel bars, spring board, jump 
stands, traveling rings and mats, are provided. There 
are also medicine balls, hand balls and basket balls. 



66 THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 

CLARIOSOPHIC LITERARY SOCIETY. 

The Southern University opened its doors to students 
October 3, 1859. On October 29, of the same year a 
number of students of the University met for the pur- 
pose of forming a literary society. Mr. C. D. Christian 
was called to the chair. He briefly stated the purpose 
of the meeting, and the body then elected the following 
officers : 

J. V. Glass, President; C. D. Christian, Vice-Presi- 
dent; F. B. Terrell, Recording Secretary; F. L. Glover, 
Treasurer; L. A. Felden, Corresponding Secretary; S. 
W. Chadwick, Censor; and W. R. Randle, Librarian. 

At the next meeting, which was November 5, 1859, 
on motion of F. B. Terrell, it was called "The Clariosophic 
Society of the Southern University." 

The drafters of the first Constitution were W. R. 
Randle, Joe Atkinson and A. M. Jones. There is also a 
vote of thanks in the minutes of the society to Mr. R. 
W. Banks for assistance given the committee on consti- 
tution. 

The first constitution was not what the students 
wanted, so on March 24, 1860, Mr. William G. Hill, of 
Franklin College, who was a member of the Phi Kappi 
Sigma Society there, procured a copy of the constitution 
of his society and merged the Clarios into a chapter of 
the Phi Kappa Sigma. This organization had its origin 
in Oxford, England, and the constitution last adopted 
was a copy of the original one. 

After being initiated into the Phi Kappa Sigma So- 
ciety, they adopted the name "Clariosophic" which is 
the name held in England and at the University of Geor- 
gia. After this the society is mentioned in the minutes 
as the Alabama Chapter of Phi Kappa Sigma. 

From the very first the minutes have been kept in 
full and the names of the speakers for each meeting ap- 
pear. We find where a committee was appointed on 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 67 

books, and this committee did excellent work in getting 
a library for the society. 

On March 2, 1861, we find a report from the libra- 
rian, Mr. S. W. Chadwick, which states that in one month 
seventy-one volumes were added to the library, fifty- 
eight were given by regular members, and the others 
by Hon. Edward Everett, Hon. Syd Moore, and Dr. W. 
M. Wightman. When the library had outgrown the ex- 
pectancy of the society it was given to the University, 
and the collection placed in the regular college library. 
The society retained the name "Clariosophic," as a chap- 
ter name, and its members are always known as 
"Clarios." Both names appear in the yell which is as 
follows : 

"Ho! Ho! Ho! 

Clario ! 

Phi Kappa Sigma 

Ho! Ho! Ho!" 

The Clariosophic Society was fortunate in becoming 
a chapter of Phi Kappa Sigma. It was not compelled 
to begin at the bottom and climb up through the various 
stages of inferiority and mediocrity to success, but be- 
gan its existence with forty years experience behind it. 

After its reorganization as a chapter of Phi Kappa 
Sigma, its members found no cause for complaint, but 
set themselves to work to emulate the example of Phi 
Sigma's noblest sons of earlier years. They saw, on the 
roll of members, such names as Robert Toombs and Alex- 
ander H. Stephens, and they realized that they must 
work if they were to show themselves worthy of such 
a post. 

Although the Alabama chapter had been in existence 
only one year when the civil war began; it furnished its 
quota to the ranks of the Confederate army. While the 
mother chapter can claim the honor of furnishing the 
Vice-President of the Confederacy, the daughter can 



68 THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 

claim the honor of furnishing brave men, who poured out 
their life's blood to protect their homes from the in- 
vader. 

Since the close of the war between the States, the so- 
ciety has shared the varying fortunes of the Southern 
University. The handsome endowment of the latter was 
swept away by the war and very few Southern boys 
were able to attend college during the years of disorder 
and unrest that characterized the reconstruction period. 
During those years the society was small. Since that 
time, however, notwithstanding the vicissitudes of for- 
tune, the tendency of the college has been upward. 

With the increase of students the society grew. Some- 
times it secured more members than the rival society, 
sometimes less. 

During the last few years, comprehended within the 
narrow limits of the memory of the present generation 
of college students, Phi Kappa Sigma has lost most of 
the challenge debates with the "Belles Lettres," and has 
won most of the society medals offered for oratory. She 
has won her share of other medals for oratory and com- 
position. Beginning with the year 1900-1901, a medal 
has been awarded each commencement, to the student 
making the highest general average of grades during 
the year. Phi Kappa Sigma has won all of these and 
has had more men on the honor roll than the rival so- 
ciety, although the other has had more members. The 
Clariosophic Society has sent out over 60 per cent, of 
the graduates from this school during the last six years. 

Today Phi Kappa Sigma looks back over forty-six 
years of continued existence. The rules and regulations 
governing it have undergone many changes. It has be- 
come a secret organization — partaking, somewhat, of the 
nature of a fraternity. The parent chapter has adopted 
itself to the conditions in its own school and the daugh- 
ter, to the conditions in the Southern University. Lack- 
ing a common council to keep them alike, they have 



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69 



grown apart. Still the two chapters are alike in spirit, 
if not in form. The same life is in each. Both limbs 
draw life and inspiration from the same trunk. Part 
of the past of each is the past of the other. 

Alabama chapter has, now, a long roll of her own 
members. Many of these have taken degrees at the 
Southern University and some have graduated elsewhere. 
Many have gone out into life without graduating at all. 
But whether they have graduated or not, they have all 




THOMAS SEAY, A. M., '67, 

Prof, of Law. Governor of 
Alabama. 



received inspiration from the old society, and the same 
ardent affections that bind us in our youth shall cheer 
us and bind us when we are old. 

This article would not be complete without the name 
of a few members who have graduated at Southern Uni- 
versity. As space is limited, I shall only mention a few. 



70 THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 

M. B. Chapman, '67, D. D., Archaeologist and Author. 
An article from him is read by hundreds of thousands of 
people every week in our Sunday School Magazine under 
the head of "The Voice From the East." 

Junius Jordan, '67, A. M., M. D., L. L. D., Professor 
Pedagogy, University of Arkansas. 

Thomas Seay, '67, A. M., L. L. D., Governor of Ala- 
bama ('86-'90.) 

F. M. Peterson, '73, A. M., D. D., former President 
Girls' Industrial School, at Montevallo. 

J. A. Moore, '81, A. M., Ph. D., former Professor Math- 
ematics, Millsaps. 

E. K. Turner, '92, A. M., Ph. D., Professor Latin, 
Emory College. 

D. P. Christenberry, '88, A. M., Professor English, 
Southern University. 

S. M. Hosmer, B. P., D. D., President Southern Uni- 
versity. 

Phi Kappa Sigma has much to be proud of, but she 
expects to improve still, as the years go by. The present 
members are doing what they can to beautify their hall, 
and keep the aim of the society before them. 

The Alumni of the society are urged to be present at 
Commencement. The men in school will be glad to meet 
all the old members, and give the hearty welcome of Phi 
Kappa Sigma. 

J. H. Williams. 

THE BELLES LETTRES SOCIETY. 

Feeling the necessity of cultivating those faculties of 
the mind uneducated by collegiate studies, and the neces- 
sity of general reading for acquiring liberal and intelli- 
gent views, C. B. Clarke, May, G. W. Creagh, H. 

Urquhart, and C. C. Ellis met, on October 28, 1859, in 
the large hall in the east end of the University building 
for the purpose of organizing a literary society. Over 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 71 

this little band of workers C. B. Clarke was first called 
to preside. 

It was then, in the regular order of business, that the 
name Belles Lettres was adopted to designate the real 
purpose of the organization. 

Unlike the Clariosophic Society, the Belles Lettres had 
to pass through its infantile trials at a time of peculiar 
severity. The civil strife had really begun at its very 
birth, and the spirit of destruction was abroad in the 
land. But nothing could discourage those five dauntless 
men who had adopted as their motto the deep sentiment 
contained in those initial letters Alpha Kappa Phi. And, 
with the true spirit of this motto they set in motion 
influences that are telling in the lives of Belles Lettres 
men wherever they may be found. 

Owing to the small number of members some of the 
offices were necessarily left vacant, to be supplied when 
other members should be elected. At a called meeting 
on November 3, 1859, the names of B. M. Huey, R. H. 
Henly, J. C. Duncan, E. F. Ramsey, J. W. Harris, J. E. 
Drake, W. W. Peterson and R. H. Jackson were proposed 
for membership and were elected by unanimous vote. 
B. M. Huey was then chsoen Vice-President for the so- 
ciety. From time to time the number of members was 
increased until it reached about twenty. With this goodly 
number the society began to furnish the hall, and to es- 
tablish a library for the exclusive use of its members, 
This done, every effort henceforth was expended in the 
effort to develop the oratorical powers and to cultivate 
the taste for good literature. 

With a great deal of interest one reads the records of 
the proceedings of this society during the dark days that 
immediately followed its organization. Not a note of 
sectional bitterness is sounded, but seemingly all are in- 
tent on gaining something for practical use in life. A 
spirit of cheer and light-heartedness seems imprinted on 
every page. Indications of progress are in the facts con- 



72 THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 

tained there, and general interest and enthusiasm seem 
to prevail until we turn into the record of the meeting on 
April 27, 1862, and read: "The society met today, con- 
sisting of Messrs. Urquhart, McKinsey, Jackson, and 
Drake (the remaining members being then in the army 
of their country)" and then notice the air of solemnity 
with which this little remnant paid their respects to the 
departed spirit of their brother, Robert W. Avery, who 
died in the service of his country. This little remnant 
of men met many difficulties during that terrible period 
of war, when the life of the whole college was deeply 
shadowed, but with the true spirit they managed, some- 
how, to keep up a lively interest throughout. In 1866 
we find only two students returned to advocate the Belles 
Lettres cause; but, never failing to replenish their num- 
ber at every good opportunity, they were, even that 
year, enabled to carry on the work to great advantage. 
Throughout this period of gloom J. E. Drake was one 
of the leading spirits. 

As the gloom of the war and its attending difficulties 
faded away the life of the whole college revived, and nat- 
urally the society grew vigorous and henceforth had noth- 
ing but a very optimistic outlook. The "Seventies" mark- 
ed an epoch of very great progress in both literary so- 
cieties, Belles Lettres and Clariosophh, and following in 
the natural course of events, the desire to test their 
strength, in a competitive way, seized the "Clarios," as 
they are popularly known, and gave rise to the selection of 
two of their best men, N. L. Whitfield snd E. W. deGraf- 
fenried, to challenge a like number of Belles Lettres to 
meet them in public debate. This challenge was issued 
on November 25, 1878, and on November 26, 1878, at a 
called meeting of the Belles Lettres, the challenge was 
accepted, evincing the fact that the Belles Lettres were 
proud of an opportunity to unfurl their banner against 
that of the sister society at a public contest. This led 
to the selection of L. D. Landrum and Taylor, to repre- 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 73 

sent Belles Lettres. Thus, what has been known since 
as challenge debate, was established, and has been a very 
great factor in the development of the faculties for de- 
bate. The occasion of challenge debate is looked forward 
to with much interest, and to be chosen to represent 
the society in this contest is considered no mean honor. 
During the evening of the debate it is indeed thrilling to 
watch the manifestations of enthusiasm on the part of 
the members of the societies. When the chosen repre- 
sentatives enter the hall, preceded by the richly colored 
banners, the peals of 

Rah! Ho! Re! 

Rah! Ho! Ri! 

Belles Lettres, Belles Lettres! 

Alpha Kappa Phi! 

seem to thrill the Belles Lettres debaters to wield their 
intellectual battle-axes in an invincible way. And who 
does not remember with what anxious restlessness we 
have awaited the announcement of the decision of the 
judges of the contest? And, after the decision, how the 
air was filled with the hats and the caps of the victors, 
and how the ears were tortured by the yells of triumph? 
This enthusiasm was made the greater by the real heat 
of the contest, for neither side ever felt that the victo- 
tory was cheaply bought. 

This spirit of rivalry has contributed much to the 
growth of the society in every particular. The "Clarios" 
have found that, although they began their career at the 
Southern University as a chapter of the already existing 
Phi Kappa Sigma Society, of which fact they are justly 
proud, the youth of the Belles Lettres Society gave it a 
vigor that would not, if it could, sit idly on an already es- 
tablished reputation. 

The effect has been a constant struggle for supremacy 
which has produced such specimens as Dr. J. 0. Keener, 



74 THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 

Dr. W. B. Murrah, Robert T. Nabors, Captain R. P. Hob- 
son, Congressman J. T. Heflin, Hon. B. M. Huey and 
many others of that type who attribute their success 
largely to the work done in the Belles Lettres Society. 

Connected with the public affairs of the society there is 
also another important and interesting occasion, that is, 
the celebration of the anniversary of the birth of the so- 
ciety on the first Friday night of May of every year. This 
occasion has not the heat of enthusiasm that naturally 
comes with the inter-society debate, but it it of a nature 
that renders it fully as interesting. The program for the 
occasion consists of an oration by an alumnus of the so- 
ciety and a debate by four representatives chosen from 
the roll of active members. 

The society no longer operates the library as formerly, 
but on February 20, 1899, deeded it to the Southern Uni- 
versity and it is now operated in connection with the 
college library. 

Of late years special efforts have bean made to beautify 
the society hall. Instead of the old wooden ceiling we 
have an elegant steel ceiling, with other improvements 
correspondingly elegant. The finishing touch in the 
beautifying of the hall was made when the two beautiful 
electric chandeliers were recently hung. This careful at- 
tention to the outward appearances is but an expression 
of the deep interest of the members in the work of the 
society. 

For many years after the organization of the society 
its meetings were held on Saturday mornings, but they 
are now held on Saturday evening, and a goodly number 
of members are found in their places at every meeting 
anxious to meet whatever duties the society may impose. 
Interest may lag in other departments of college life, 
but never here. 

The society is proud of its past, proud of the period of 
its birth, for which such environments no purposeless 
organization could survive during its infancy. The re- 



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75 



cords of the past are an inspiration to the present. The 
society today is wielding a greater influence than its 
founders, perhaps, ever dreamed of. Let us hope that 
the horizon of its influence may continue to broaden and 
thus touch more men so as to fit them for the practical 
walks of life. 

Charles Denson Daniel. 




F. M. DOM1NICK. 
FRATERNITIES AT THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY. 



F. M. DOMINICK. 



Fraternities as departments of student-life play an 
important part in American colleges. There are at pres- 
ent four such organizations at the Southern University, 
and two have established chapters here, which afterwards 
died. We shall give a short account of each in the order 
of the seniority of the local chapters. The two that do 
not now have chapters here must necessarily be noted 
briefly, on account of the absence of records, etc. 



76 



THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 




PI KAPPA ALPHA. 



In 1871, the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity granted a char- 
ter to Delta chapter, at the Southern University, with the 
following members: George H. Bradfield, J. M. Hale, 
Charles T. Gordon, J. S. Hunnicut, J. 0. Keener, N. R. 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 77 

Lindsey, A. McCollum, W. B. Murrah, Robert T. Nabors, 
Alexander Powe, John P. Robertson, G. D. Stollenwerck, 
M. D. Thomasson, and George S. Vaughan. In 1873, the 
charter was surrendered on account of the decreased at- 
tendance of the college. However, after some thirty-two 
years, the fraternity again entered the college by renew- 
ing in November, 1905, the charter of Delta, with five 
charter members: J. T. Willcoxon, George M. Watson, 
N. G. Cammack, V. M. Shamburger, S. E. Scarborough. 
They have a nicely furnished home down town, and have 
set to work with enthusiasm to make up for the thirty- 
three years of lost time. 

SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON. 

Alabama Iota Chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon was 
founded by Hon. J. E. D. Shipp, now a prominent attorney 
of Americus, Ga., on November 20, 1878. Mr. Shipp was 
a member of Alpha Mu chapter at Auburn. The charter 
members were : C. B. Walker, now deceased ; J. H. Bell, 
Quitman, Miss. ; and J. M. Kendall, of Eufaula, Ala. Dur- 
ing '81-82, owing to the great financial embarrassment of 
the college and the small percentage of students, the 
charter was withdrawn from Alabama Iota by the fra- 
ternity. However, in '83-84 the chapter was re-establish- 
ed, the renewal taking place on January 26, 1884, with 
two old members and five new initiates. Since that time 
the chapter has had a continuous and prosperous exis- 
tence. Two hundred and twenty men have been inducted 
into the mysteries of Sigma Alpha Epsilon by Alabama 
Iota. Among them are numbered some of Southern Uni- 
versity's most promising Alumni, in the church, in law, 
in medicine, in business, in education, and in the various 
other activities of life. All have contributed to the honor 
of the college and to the glory of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. 

Among the most honored and revered initiates of Ala- 
bama Iota, must be mentioned former Chancellor Luther 



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THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 




IOTA CHAPTER, SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON FRATKRNITY 

Top Row— J W Cleveland, A. H. McDonnell W. R. Hosmer, J. C. 

Carr, F. S Whatley. 
Bottom Row— R B. Carr P. B. Jarmon, F. E. Spann, L. J. Weber. 

M. Smith, of the Southern University. The life of this 
gre educator and preacher alone is contribution enough 
from Alabama Iota to the fraternity in general. The 
fraternity also initiated Professor C. A. Grote, of the 
faculty, in December, 1878. 

Like the other fraternities, Sigma Alpha Epsilon rented 
rooms until 1908, when they erected a neat chapter hall 
of their own — the first S. U. chapter to own its building. 



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79 




SIGMA CHI FRATERNITY. 

(Standing)— 1, Milligan; 2, Stickney, W, B.; 3. Cummings. J. B ; 
4, Eppes, John; 5, Allen, Charles; 6, Moore, M. H.; 7, Tur- 
ner, Jack; 8, Feagin. (Sitting) — 1, Ward. E. B.; 2, Landrum, 
L. D.; 3, Tarry, Geo. W ; 4, Johnson, Henry; 5, Ward, T. R.; 
6, Landrum, Zack P ; 7, Rencher, W. P. 



SIGMA CHI 



Chi Chi chapter, of Sigma Chi was chartered in 1879, 
and continued at Southern University until 1882. It 
then lost its charter because of the failure of any of its 
members to return to college after the vacation. During 
its short life Chi Chi initiated into Sigma Chi twenty- 
three men. 



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THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 




PHARES COLEMAN, 
Founder of Phi Chapter of K A Fraternity. 

KAPPA ALPHA. 



Phi chapter of the Kappa Alpha order was born in the 
old Nelson mansion, for many years a landmark in 
Greensboro. This house has since been torn down. Hon. 
Phares Coleman, of Montgomery, then a resident of 
Greensboro, was among the most active of its founders. 
He worked and labored for its founding until success 
crowned his efforts. In 1882, a charter was granted to 
the following students : W. A. Compton, Jefferson, Ala. ; 
0. Skinner, Old Spring Hill, Ala. ; J. R. Connerley, Vien- 
na, Ala. ; U. E. Scales, Coatopa, Ala. ; John R. Morris, 
Whistler, Ala. ; Ross P. Cox, Citronelle, Ala. ; Percy Wood. 
Selma, Ala. ; Phares Coleman, Greensboro, Ala. ; George 
W. Hill, Gainesville, Ala.; James H. Webb, Nann Hub- 
ba, Ala. 

The chapter has never existed sub rosa, being recog- 
nized by the faculty from its birth. In 1882-83, the chap- 
ter was inactive on account of the small number of boys 





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82 THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 

in the college, but since that time, it has had a continu- 
ous existence. The fraternity first rented a hall down 
town in the old Odd Fellows Lodge, but for several years 
they have been in possession of an elegantly furnished 
room in the college building. 

From year to year, the chapter has continued to pros- 
per, until now her alumni number 215. They have gone 
forth into life to take their part in the struggle and to ex- 
emplify the truths of Kappa Alpha where the exemplifi- 
cation gives honor to their college and to their order. 
Three of her sons, E. L. Brown, D. P. Christenberry, 
and L. P. Giddens, have occupied places in the faculty of 
their Alma Mater, while one, R. P. Hobson, has attained 
to world-wide celebrity as a naval commander and a true 
and unswerving patriot. Nineteen hundred and six marks 
the twenty-fourth year of Kappa Alpha at Southern Uni- 
versity, and its members are proud of the humble share 
Phi chapter has had in the order itself, and in the devel- 
opment of college life at this institution. 



IOTA PHI. 



The Iota Phi fraternity was established at the South- 
ern University in 1884. Its founders secured a charter 
from the State of Alabama. Their intention was to ex- 
pand and establish chapters in other colleges, but after 
an existence of four years, the fraternity disbanded, 
some of its members joining the chapters of the other fra- 
ternities represented at the college. H. T. Strout, Pres- 
ident; H. Graham Benners, Secretary, and John W. Rol- 
lins, Treasurer, are the names which appear upon the 
fraternity's charter. 



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REV. T. R. McCARTY 
Founder Beta Beta Chapter, Alpha Tau Omega 

ALPHA TAU OMEGA. 



Beta Beta chapter of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity 
was established March 28, 1885, by Mr. T. R. McCarty, of 
Alpha Epsilon chapter, at Auburn. The founder, know- 
ing the mysterious nature of the order, selected a peculi- 
arly appropriate place for the initiation ceremony, 
Stoke's graveyard to the north of town. There in that 
very fraternity atmosphere nine prominent and popular 
young men took the oath that made them Alpha Taus. 
For a month and a half the chapter was sub rosa. 

Beta Beta from the start has held a high place among 
the chapters of the fraternities in the Southern Univer- 
sity and an equally high place among the other chapters 
of Alpha Tau Omega. 

After twenty-one years, Beta Beta is truly full grown. 
To the little band of the first year have in that time been 
added 169. Its alumni are scattered all over our coun- 
try and are doing honor to it and to the Southern Uni- 
versity. Three members of the first chapter were pro- 



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THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 



fessors in the institution, Dr. Francis M. Peterson, for- 
mer President of the Alabama Girls' Industrial School, 
at Montevallo, and C. P. Atkinson. Two others have been 
selected to serve as members of the faculty of their Alma 
Mater, after their initiation into Alpha Tau Omega. 

The first chapter roll was as follows : T. K. Terrell, E. 
M. Craig, H. B. Farish, 0. C. Farish, John F. Gillis, Jo- 
seph E. Hutchinson, R, H. Long, W. H. Moore, Professor 
F. M. Peterson, W. C. Swanson, J. L. Moore, F. E. Porter, 
W. R. Porter, E. W. Ormond, W. B. Hendrick, R. L. 
Stough, L. L. Smith. 




BETA BETA CHAPTER, ALPHA TAU OMEGA FRATERNITY 

1800. 

From Left to Right— F. E. Chapman, Alonzo Abrams. M. N. Car- 
penter, W. H. Moore, W. W. McGehee, D. E Shoaff, T. M. 
Purcell, Leon Watkins, R. H. Bryant, R. E Ledbetter, J. W. 
Frazer, W. Pierce Chilton, L. Carroll Steele, Geo. N. Wilson, 
A. C. Davis, C. L. Chilton, Jr , Reid Lawson. 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 85 

PHI DELTA THETA. 

Alabama Gamma chapter of the Phi Delta Theta frater- 
nity was chartered at the Southern University in 1887, 
and continued until 1896. At that time the charter was 
withdrawn by the officers of the fraternity. Rev. W. F. 
Andrews, A. M., '86, now of Little Rock, Ark., was the 
founder of the chapter. During its nine years of life, 
Gamma initiated 122 men, and always occupied a promi- 
nent place among the fraternities in the college. Its 
members were numbered among the leading students, 
and its alumni are reflecting honor upon themselves and 
the institution. Phi Delta Theta occupied, as did the 
other fraternities, an elegantly furnished chapter room in 
the main college building. Since the withdrawal of the 
fraternity from this institution, their chapter room has 
been converted into a sitting room for the "co-eds." We 
regret very much our inability to give a more extended 
account of Gamma, but owing to the removal of all re- 
cords at the chapter's withdrawal, the data was not ob- 
tained. 



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PHI DELTA THETA FRATERNITY, 1895. 

1, Will Tebault; 2, Chas. McLeod; 3, S. C. Folkes; 4, James V. 
Brown; 5, Olin Newman; 6, Marvin Kendrick; 7, Hugh 
Hamil; 8, J. A. Baxley; 9, Edward Gaines; 10, Percy Knick- 
erbocker; 11, Seay deGraffenried; 12, Miss Ella Keener; 13, 
Mrs. J. O. Keener; 14, Rev. J. 0. Keener, D. D.; 15, Chas. 
Martin; 16, W. R. Bickerstaff; 17, Holt Roberts; 18, Ben 
Wittich; 19, F. F. Whittle. 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 87 

GENERAL INFORMATION. 



Location and Advantages. 

The Southern University is located at Greensboro, a 
delightful town of two thousand five hundred inhabi- 
tants, situated near the center of the State, being about 
170 miles from the southern, and 145 miles from the 
northern boundary. Greensboro is on the line of the 
Southern Railway. Daily trains to Selma and Akron ren- 
der the place accessible from all quarters. Greensboro is 
an old Southern town, noted for its refined society, genu- 
ine college atmosphere, and excellent health record. Cli- 
mate is mild and delightful. There is no foreign ele- 
ment. The town is well supplied with good artesian wa- 
ter, telephone and telegraph systems, electric lights and 
cherted streets. There are four churches — Methodist, 
Presbyterian, Baptist, and Episcopal. The social and re- 
ligious advantages are unsurpassed. By special statute 
the sale of spirituous liquors is prohibited. 

PLANT 

The plant of the Southern University consists of twenty 
six acres of land, level and in one body. Upon this land 
is located the University or main building ; Hamilton Hall, 
used as a dormitory, accommodating 68 students; the 
President's home ; two residences for professors ; the gym- 
nasium, which is said to be the most complete college 
gymnasium in Alabama ; the athletic field, which consists 
of a ball diamond and grand stand, four well finished ten- 
nis courts, and basket ball ground. 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 89 

Improvements 

During the past few years, more than ten thousand dol- 
lars have been expended in equipping and beautifying the 
main building. Some three thousand collars ($3,000) has 
been expended in the science department, and more than 
one thousand dollars ($1,000) in the library and reading 
room. Hamilton Hall has been renovated and re-furnish- 
ed at a cost of $1,430.65. 




COLLEGE RESIDENCE. 
Occupied by Prof. Littleton. 

Tuition, Fees, Etc. 

The student, upon admission, becomes responsible for 
tuition and matriculation fees for the entire term. No 
reduction is granted in case of dismission, or in case of 
voluntary withdrawal, except when necessitated by pro- 
tracted illness or other providential causes. 



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Tuition fees are remitted to the sons of itinerant Meth- 
odist ministers, and to young men preparing themselves 
for the itinerant Methodist ministry. The latter must 
present certificates from the presiding elders of the dis' 
tricts from which they come, and must connect themselves 
with the church at Greensboro. They are required to 
give notes for tuition to be void when they admitted into 
full connection in an Annual Conference. 




COLLEGE RESIDENCE. 

Occupied first by J. C. Wills, second by Andrew Sledd, third by 
B. P. Richardson. 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 91 

Aid to Worthy Young Men. 

It is the policy of the Southern University to aid wor- 
thy young men who desire a college education and who 
cannot meet all necessary expenses while in college. Ac- 
cordingly worthy and deserving young men will be cred- 
ited for their tuition and required to give their notes 
for same, payable after they leave college. A number 
of students partly support themselves while at college by 
work of various kinds in Greensboro. 

Expenses 

Session of 9 months divided into two terms : 

Tuition per term - - - $25 00 

Matriculation fee per term 4 00 

Library fee per term .. - 2 00 

Gymnasium fee per term 1 50 

Special Fees 

Chemistry per term $ 5 00 

Physics per term 1 50 

Biology per term 1 50 

Diploma 5 00 

These special fees, required only of student who enter 
these departments, must be paid at the beginning of the 
term. 

Summary of Expenses for Entire Session 

MINIMUM MEDIUM MAXIMUM 

Tuition $ 50 00 $ 50 00 $ 50 00 

Matriculation 8 00 8 00 8 00 

Gymnasium 3 00 3 00 3 00 

Library .. .-. 4 00 4 00 4 00 

Board - - 99 00 112 50 135 00 



$164 00 $177 50 $200 00 



92 THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 

The above does not include cost of books and laundry. 
Books cost from $7.00 to $12.00 a year. Laundry need 
not cost more than $10.00 to $12.00 for entire session. 
The matriculation fees and tuition must be paid at the 
beginning of each term. 

LOAN FUNDS. 
(Catalogue 1906.) 

Martin Fund 

A few years ago Mrs. Amanda V. Martin created a loan 
fund, known as the "Amanda Martin Fund," which, un- 
der God, has been a great blessing to the college and to 
the young men given by its aid to the Methodist ministry. 

This fund was established to assist young men prepar- 
ing for the ministry who are otherwise unable to meet the 
expenses for their college cource. 

The beneficiaries give their notes, which, for one year 
succeeding date of loan, are non-interest bearing. 
Ann B. Betts Fund. 

A similar loan fund is now available through the muni- 
ficence of Mrs. Ann B. Betts, whose bequest is gratefully 
acknowledged. The interest accruing from this fund will 
be applied to the assistance of young ministers in the pros- 
ecution of their studies. 

Banks Memorial Fund. 

This fund is established in memory of Newton P. Banks, 
for the purpose of assisting young men who are preparing 
for the ministry. 

This fund will be increased from year to year, and care- 
fully administered according to the conditions named by 
those who established it. 

The Holloway Fund 

Mr. W. E. Holloway has begun an endowment fund 
which he proposes to increase from time to time, the same 
to be used according to conditions named by him in 
assisting young men preparing for the ministry. 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 93 

The Dumas Fund 

This fund, established by Mrs. Lelia Dumas, will be ap- 
plied to the endowment of the institution, administered 
as directed by her. It is her purpose to increase same 
from time to time. 

The Wiggins Fund 

This fund established by C. L. Wiggins, Pine Barren, 
Fla., will be applied to the permanent endowment of the 
institution and administered as he directs. This fund, 
which is already a considerable sum, will be increased 
by him from time to time. 

The Greensboro Fund 

The Board of Stewards of Greensboro charge have cre- 
ated a loan fund, whereby they will assist worthy young 
men from the laity who, unaided, are financially unable 
to pursue their course. The faculty wish to express 
their appreciation of these gifts and their gratitude to 
Almighty God that He is moving upon the hearts of His 
people, who are able to do so, to aid in this most worthy 
cause. But the demand for loans is far in excess of the 
supply of funds. Will not others help? 

The A. S. Andrews Scholarship Fund. 

This fund, established by the Church at Union Springs, 
in memory of Dr. A. S. Andrews, is intended to be in- 
creased until the interest on the principal will support at 
least one student each year. 

It is indeed a worthy effort upon the part of our 
people at Union Springs to perpetuate the memory of this 
great and good man, who did so much for Christian educa- 
tion in Alabama, in this way. 

The Scarbrongh Memorial Fund. 

This fund is established by Mrs. Julia E. Scarbrough in 
memory of her son, Robert S. Scarbrough. It is her pur- 
pose that this fund shall be used to aid worthy young 
men who are preparing for the ministry that they may 
equip themselves well for their high calling. 



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THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 
Aid to Worthy Young Men. 



It is the policy of the Southern University to aid worthy 
young men who desire a college education and who can- 
not meet all necessary expenses while in college. Ac- 
cordingly worthy and deserving young men will be credit- 




REV. R. R. JONES. 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 



95 



ed for their tuition and required to give their notes for 
same, payable after they leave college. A number of stu- 
dents partly support themselves while at college by work 
of various kinds in Greensboro. 

Bob Jones Permanent Conference Fund. 
The Association, realizing the inestimable benefits 
which have accrued to the young men and the Association 
from sending delegates to the Summer Student Conference 
at Ashville, have established a permanent conference 
fund. By the aid of this fund, any young man may at- 
tend the Conference, there catching a glorious vision of 
the Risen Christ and return to this Association filled with 



■■■■% 



JNO. A. STRAITON. 
Architect and builder of new Chapel and founder of the Ready 
Debater's Medal. 

inspiration and power. 

One-fourth of this fund which is to be made $400.00 
will be loaned each year to student delegates from the 
college. This loan will bear interest after one year from 
the time the student leaves college, if not paid by that 
date. 

In appreciation of the generous gift of $100.00 to the 



96 THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 

fund by the Evangelist, Rev. R. R. Jones, the Association 

has called it the Bob Jones Permanent Conference Fund. 

Medals Founded. 

John A. Straiton — Ready Debater. 

John G. Apsey — Ready Writer. 

Hal Y. Webb — Scholarship United Daughters of Con- 
federacy. 

Faculty — Sophomore Declamation. 

Faculty — Junior Oration. 

Hamilton Hall. 

Hamilton Hall is a dormitory and boarding building 
well situated on a very fine lot immediately in front of the 
Main Building across the street from the campus. Rooms 
are let and meals are furnished. It has been established 
and maintained for the benefit of those who wish to pur- 
sue their college course at the least possible expense. 
Many of the best students of the University are connected 
with this department, and we recommend it to the fa- 
vorable attention of our friends and patrons. The cost 
of board, lights and fuel in this department is $12.00 per 
month. 

Students provide their own toilet articles and bed-cloth- 
ing. The rooms are furnished with bedsteads, mattress- 
es, springs, tables and chairs. The Hall is equipped with 
electric lights. 

RESOLUTIONS. 

To Parents and Guardians. 

Parents and guardians are requested not to encourage 
their sons to visit their homes during the session, or to 
leave the University until the close of the Commence- 
ment exercises. 

Merchants and others are notified not to credit stu- 
dents, except by written permission of their parents. 
Frequent reports of the progress and deportment of all 
students are made to the President. If at any time the 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 97 

student persists in being irregular in his deportment, or 
fails in the performance of his college duties, his parent 
or guardian will receive notice. 

Students from other colleges must bring certificates of 
honorable dismission. No student shall be allowed the 
possession of firearms or deadly weapons. 

No student will be received for a shorter period than 
one term, and all will be held responsible for the tuition 
fees, whether present or absent, until they are regularly 
discharged. 

The college fees in all cases, are required to be satis- 
factorily settled before the student is permitted to enter 
upon a second term. No student is allowed to graduate or 
take part in the Commencement exercises, nor will a cer- 
tificate of honorable dismission be given, until all arrear- 
ages are paid. 

Discipline 

In the judgment of the Faculty and Board of Trustees 
the least legislation that secures good government is best. 
They would encourage self-control in accordance with the 
true ideals of life. Students are put upon their honor 
and trusted until it is found they will not respond to con- 
fidence, when they are advised to return home. 
Demerit System 

Censure of a student's conduct is usually expressed in 
demerits. The President and Faculty deal with each case 
upon its merits. When the demerits of any student, at 
any time during one term, shall have reached one hundred 
and fifty, he will be immediately dismissed, and in no 
case be readmitted into the University except upon appli- 
cation, or in writing from his parent or guardian, accom- 
panied with satisfactory assurance from himself of future 
good conduct. 

Diligent efforts are made to stimulate and encourage 
students to faithful application in their studies, and to 
inspire in them an earnest desire for all that goes to make 
true character and Christian manhood. 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 99 

Church Attendance 
All students are required to attend church Sunday 
morning, and are encouraged to attend Sunday school. 
Chapel Exercises 
A morning service of Scripture reading, song, and 
prayer is held five times a week, and attendance is re- 
quired. Monday is made as nearly a holiday as possible, 
and on that day there are only a few smaller classes and 
no chapel exercises. 

College Cal endar 
A very improving series of college exercises will be 
shown by reference to the Calendar. These will be dis- 
tributed according to the dates there shown, and thus 
come at appropriate intervals for the best improvement 
of the students. 

Schedule Hours. 

The weekly schedule of class periods cannot be varied 
to avoid conflicts; but students should arrange work ac- 
cording to a plan so as to avoid conflicts for themselves. 
The regular courses require three recitations per week 
in each subject. 

Absence from Recitations 

If a student's absence from recitations in any subject 
shall have reached one-eighth of the required recitations 
in that subject for one term, the student must stand an 
additional examination in that subject. When the ab- 
sences from recitations shall have reached one-sixth of 
the required recitations for one term, the student's regis- 
tration in that class will be cancelled. A committee of 
the Faculty may restore cancelled registration for satis- 
factory reasons. 

Examinations 

There are held during the session two examinations, 
which every student is required to attend. The interme- 
diate examination in January covers the subjects of in- 



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struction of the first half of the course or first term. The 
final examination in May covers the subjects studied dur- 
ing the second half of the course or second term. 

These examinations are conducted in writing, and the 
same questions are to be answered by the whole class. 
Examination grades are combined and averaged with the 
daily average grades. If the student's final average is 
valued at 80 per cent, he is ranked distinguished; 70 to 
80 per cent., GOOD; 60 to 70 per cent., PASSABLE; less than 
60 per cent., deficient; and his proficiency is not re- 
garded as sufficient to justify his advancement to a higher 
class. The examinations are sufficiently comprehensive 
and difficult to render it impossible for a student, with- 
out diligence, to secure a place in the first of these classes, 
which is a mark of honor. 




RESIDENCE OF PROF. C. P. ATKINSON. 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 101 

Presiding Elders of Greensboro District during the 
history of the college. The district at one time embraced 
the Birmingham territory. 

From W. E. W. Yerby's History of Greensboro. 

T. J. Roger, 1852-55; J. W. Starr, 1856; J. J. Hutchin- 
son, 1857-58; T. J. Ramsey, 1859; Edward Wadsworth, 
1860; J. W. Starr, 1861; C. C. Callaway, 1862-65; 
Abram Adams, 1866; J. L. Cotton, 1867-68; A. H. 
Mitchell, 1871-79; S. H. Cox, 1880; H. Urquhart, 1881- 
84; J. Bancroft, 1884-86; T. J. Mangum, 1886; 0. R. 
Blue, J. R. Peavy, J. Bancroft, 0. C. McGehee, John A. 
Peterson, W. P. Hurt, E. A. Dannelly. 

Preachers in Charge. 

C. C. Callaway, 1854-55 ; Edward Wadsworth, 1856-57 ; 
Wm. Shapard, 1858-59; T. J. Ramsey, 1860-61; J. A. 
Heard, 1862; R. H. Hargrove, 1863; T. T. Ramsey, 
1864-65; T. O. Summers, 1866; J. C. Wills, 1866; T. C. 
Weir, 1867-68; John S. Moore, 1869-71; A. S. Andrews, 
1872-75; O. R. Blue, 1875; H. Urquhart, 1876; J. Lewisi 
Jr., 1877-80; F. M. Peterson, 1881-84; A. S. Andrews 
1885; W. P. Dickinson, 1886-89; O .C. McGehee, 1889-92; 
J. O. Keener, 1893-04 ; A. S. Andrews, July, 1894 ; W. M. 
Cox, 1894-98; C. L. Chilton, 1898-1902; T. R. McCarty, 
1902-03; E. L. Crawford, 1903-06; Henry Trawick, 1907. 

The following served as pastors while connected with 
the college : J. C. Wills, John S. Moore, A. S. Andrews ; 
J. Lewis, and F. M. Peterson. 



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R. F. MONETTE, A. B.. M. D. 
President of Alumni Association, 1906. 

SOCIETY OF ALUMNI. 



The object of this society is to unite the graduates in a 
common bond of fellowship and to foster their love for 
their Alma Mater, and their interest in her welfare. The 
annual business meeting is held Tuesday evening of Com- 
mencement Week at 8:30 o'clock. On Tuesday evening 
of Commencement one of their number delivers an oration 
before the public in the college chapel. 

At a recent meeting a committee was appointed to raise 
funds for the endowment of a Chair of History. The plan 
is as follows : The committee are to secure non-interest- 
bearing notes payable in four installments. The notes 
are to be drawn for $25.00, $50.00, $100.00 and upward. 
The work was intrusted to the following committee : D. 
P. Christenberry, F. M. Peterson, L. P. Giddens, A. L. 
Andrews, E. A. Dannelly, E. L. Crawford, E. K. Turner. 

The committee have raised in subscriptions $13,500. 
The amount collected to date is $4,000. 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 103 

Present Officers of the Association, (1906.) 

President R. F. Monette. 

First Vice-President C. W. Gavin. 

Orator Junius Jordan, 

Secretary and Treasurer L. P. Giddens. 

Editor H. C. Howard. 

Committee on Memoirs ... D. P. Christenberry, F. Seay. 




AUTHOR'S RESIDENCE. 



APPENDIX 



The Presidents and Acting Presidents from 1856-1906. 

Wm. M. Wightman, Nov. 24, 1856-June, 1868, Edward 
Wadsworth, June 1867-Dec. 1870. Allen Scheen Andrews, 
1870-1874; 1883-June 1894. Luther M. Smith, Oct 1875- 
1880. Josiah Lewis, 1880-1881. Francis Peterson, 1881- 
1883; 1899. Jno. Ormon Keener, 1894-1898. Sam'l. M. 
Hosmer, 1899, to the present. Drs. Lupton, J. S. Moore, 
and Professor Grote served at short intervals as Chair- 
man of the Faculty. 

The Faculty of the Southern University 1856-1906. 

Edward Wadsworth, A. M., 1859-70, Moral Philosophy. 
N. Thos. Lupton, A. M., 1859-71, Chemistry. 

0. F. Casey, A. M., 1859-76, Ancient Languages. 
J. C. Wills, A. M., 1859-71, Mathematics. 

J. A. Reubelt, 1860-61, Mod. Languages & Hebrew. 
Jno. S. Moore, A. M., 1871-84, Mathematics. 

D. M. Rush, A. M., 1872-74, Mathematics. 
T. O. Summers, Jr., 1871-74, Chemistry. 
T. D. Mitchell, 1874-76, Chemistry. 

1. S. Hopkins, 1876-78, Science. 

e C. A. Grote, A. M., 1876-94, Science & Modern Lan- 
guages. 

J. Lewis, Jr., 1875-81, English. 

C. M. Verdel, A. M., 1876-81, Science. 

F. M. Peterson, A. M., D. D., 1877-99, Ancient Lan- 
guages. 

J. A. Moore, A. M., Ph. D., 1883-94, Mathematics. 

L. C. Dickey, 1883-94, English & History. 

Rev. J. F. Sturdivant, 1885-90, English. 

E. L, Brown, B. S., 1889-03, Science. 

C. L. McCartha, 1890-92, English. 

D. P. Christenberry, A. M., 1892 to present, English. 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 105 

L. P. Giddens, A. B., 1894-1905, Mathematics. 

Rev. J. W. Shoaff, D. D., 1899-02, Mental & Moral Phil- 
osophy. 

J. T. Littleton, A. M., Litt. D., 1899 to present, Mod- 
ern Languages. 

E. K. Turner, Ph. D., 1899-03, Ancient Languages. 

Andrew Sledd, Ph. D., 1903-04, Greek. 

E. L. Colebeck, M. A., 1902-1905, Ancient Languages. 

B. P. Richardson, B. S., 1903 to present, Science. 

C. P. Atkinson, A .M., 1904 to present, Mental & Moral 
Philosophy. 

D. M. Key, M. A., 1906, to present, Ancient Languages. 

F. E. Chapman, M. A., to present, Mathematics. 

From the above list all adjunct professors have been 
omitted. There may be some omissions of regular profes- 
sors, as the list was compiled from the regular proceed- 
ings of the Board of Trustees, and at times instructors 
were secured by the Presidents. Some of the degrees of 
the instructors may also have been omitted, owing to the 
lack of information. The following are a few of those 
who had charge of the Preparatory Department: O. F. 
Casey; Chas. Lane; J. M. P. Otts; T. D. Mitchell; Rounce- 
val Dowdell; A. H. Moore; A. W. Smith; L. C. Dickey; 
W. H. Geisler; J. F. Sturdivant; B. F. Marshall; E. K. 
Turner ; J. A. Baxley. Some of these also served as reg- 
ular professors. A complete list cannot be made as the 
minutes of the Faculty who elected the Preparatory 
teachers, prior to 1903 are lost. 

LIST OF HONORARY DEGREES CONFERRED BY THE SOUTHERN 

UNIVERSITY. 

Bishop E. M. Marvin, D. D. 
Rev. W. H. Andrews, D. D. 
Rev. Nathaniel H. Lee, D. D. 
Bishop O. P. Fitzgerald, D. D. 



106 THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 

Rev. C. D. Campbell, D. D. 

Rev. A. H. Redford, D. D. 

Rev. Thomas M. Finney, D. D. 

Rev. I. G. John, D. D. 

Rev. J. D. Cameron, D. D. 

C. Y. Rankin, D. D. 

M. B. Chapman, D. D. 

Prof. J. H. Philips, Ph. D. 

Bishop J. C. Keener, L. L. D. 

J. D. Andrew, D. D. 

Senator John T. Morgan, L. L. D. 

Rev. 0. R. Blue, D. D. 

Rev. John S. Moore, D. D. 

Rev. E. M. Bounds, D. D. 

W. C. Black, D. D. 

Governor Thomas Seay, LL. D. 

Dr. A. S. Andrews, L. L. D. 

J. W. DuBose, D. D. 

J. M. Mason, D. D. 

J. W. Newman, D. D. 

J. B. Gregory, D. D. 

J. R. Allen, D. D. 

J. 0. Keener, D. D. 

S. M. Hosmer, D. D. 

V. 0. Hawkins, D. D. 

J. R. Allen, D. D. 

W, C. Lovett, D. D. 

J. W. Shoaff, D. D. 

Hon. J. J. Garrett, L. L. D. 

Warner Moore, D. D. 

A. J. Lamar, D. D. 

F. M. Peterson, D. D. 

J. S. Frazer, D. D. 

J. L. Webber, D. D. 

George B. Winton, D. D. 

John A. Peterson, D. D. 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 107 

A. L. Andrews, D. D. 

0. C. McGehee, D. D. 

Hon. A. A. Coleman, L. L. D. 

Wm. Posey Hurt, D. D. 

James Henry McCoy, D. D. 

Walter G. Isaacs, D. D. 

Richmond Pearson Hobson, L. L. D. 



Diplomas and Certificates Conferred 



istiu 



NAME 
Glass, J. V.. 
*Huey, B. M. 



DEGREES OCCUPATION 

...A. B Building: Material 

. A. B Attorney 



PRESENT ADDRESS 
Birmingham 



1861 

Atkinson, Jos A. B Physician Arcadia, La. 

Littlejohn, J. B Chem 

Spillman, Win. F A. B Macon, Miss. 

*Urquhart, Hy : Latin Minister Ed. Ala. Chr. Advocate 

1862 



♦Drake, Jas, E A. B. 

Jackson, Robt. H Chem. 

♦Urquhart, H A. B. 



Planter 
Planter 

Minister 



Greensboro. 



*Harlan, J. W A. B. 

Osborn, Jas. D Chem. 

*Urquhart, H A. M. . 



Ed. Ala. Chr. Advocate. 



1866 

Borden, J. Lane Latin Physician 

Calloway. D. M Two Schools Teacher Selma. 

Crutcher, T. P Chem 

Happel, T. J A. M Physician Trenton, Tenn. 

♦Hutchinson, E. N A. M 

*Magruder, A. B Ancient Language 

*Sampey, Jno. W Chem Teacher 

*Seay, T. J Two Schools Atty Goxernor of Alabama. 

* Summers, T. O. Jr Ancient Lang Surgeon 

♦Walker, W Chem Editor and Teacher Brandon, Miss. 



Birmingham 

Selma 

.... St. Louis. Mr. 
New Orleans, La. 



1867 

Benners, Alfred H Chem Attorney 

Calloway, D. M A. M Teacher 

Chapman, W. B Chem Minister 

Dyer, Thos. W A. M Teacher 

Humphrey, D. G Chem 

Inge, W. B Two Schools Planter Greensboro. 

Jordan, Junius A. M Prof. Ped. Univ. Ark Fayetteville, Ark. 

♦Keener, C Chem Minister 

♦Magruder, H. B A. M 

♦Peterson, J. J Two Schools Physician 

Portis, I. D Chem 

Ramsey, T. Y Chem Minister 

♦Sampey, Jno. W A. B Teacher 

♦Seay, Thos A. M Atty Governor of Alabama. 

♦Summers, T. O. Jr A. B Surgeon 

Webb, L. D Chem Planter Greensboro. 

♦Wills, Wm. D Chem Attorney 



1868 

Benners, A. H A. B Attorney 

Humphrey, H. B Chem 

Inge, W. B A. M Planter . 

Inge, Richard Chem Physician 

Parrish, A. G Chem 

♦Peterson, J. J A. M Physician 



Birmingham. 
Greensboro. 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 



109 



♦Walker, Wm A. M. 

Waller, Chas. E Chem. 

Webb, L. D B. P. 

* Wills, W. D A. B. 



Editor and Teacher 

, Attorney 

.Planter 

Attorney , 



Brandon, Miss. 
. • . Greensboro. 
Greensboro. 



1869 

♦Keener, Christian A. M Minister 

Nugent, C. J A. M Minister LaGrange, Ky. 

♦Oliver, Hy. L Three Schools Teacher 

Osborn, Thos. H Chem 



Powell, Edw. 



<Wi 



W. D. 



Armstrong, Wm. H Five 

♦Coleman, Jas. B Three 

Jones, Nathan M 

McGehee, R. M 

♦Nelson, Geo. T 

Osbom, Thos. H Two 

Peterson, J. A 

♦Summers, T. O., Jr 

* Waller, Percy H 

Webb, Sam'l. S 



M Prof. N. Tex. Fern. Col Sherman, Tex. 

M Attorney 



1S70 



Attorney 
Attorney 



.810-14 Tocoma Bid., Chicago. 



Schools. 
Schools. 
..A. M.. 

Chem. . 

Chem \ 

Schools 

••A. B Minister Dothan. 

.A. M Surgeon 

Chem Planter 

Chem 



1S71 



Brame, Thos. W. . . 
♦Coleman, Jas. B. 

Gordon, C. T 

Lawson, A 

McGehee, Edw. L. . 

Peterson, J. A 

Robertson, J. P. . . 



B. P. 
.B. P. 
A. M. 
Chem. 

B. P. 
A. M. 



.Macon, Miss. 



..Attorney 

..Attorney 

Camden, Ark. 

.Banker Greensboro. 

.Physician New Orleans. 

..Minister Dothan. 

• B - P Aikansas. (?) 

1872 



♦Culpepper, A. B 

Garner, W. D. . . . 
Lindsay. N. R. . . 
♦Nabors, R. T. . . . 

Powe, A 1. . . 

♦Rush, David M.. 
Young. T. R 



. P. P 

Chem 

A - M Attorney, Judge Comanche, Tex. 

-B. P Minister 

P»- P Winchester, Miss. 

• A. B Pres. Centenary College La 

Chem 



1873 

Allen. J. R A. B 

Briggs, G. W B. P.... 

♦Crews, J. M A. B 

Happel, H. H M. D 

Lawson, A A. B 

♦Nabois, R. T A. B Minister 

♦Peterson, F. M A. M Pres. Al 

♦Rankin, C. Y A. B Minister 

♦Rush, D. M A. M Pres. Centenary College 

1S74 



Prof. Mor. Phil. S. W. U. ..Georgetown, Tex. 

Minister Louisville, Ky. 

Minister * 

Physician 

Ban ker Greensboro! 



Girls Industrial School 



Borden, J. P 

♦Crews, J. M. .. 
DuBose, J. W. 
Hosmer, Sam'l. 
Hoyle, Chas. L. 
♦Keener, J. O. . 
•Kelley, C. H. .. 
Lawson, A 



honorary 
M 



• M - D Physician Greensboro. 

.A. M Minister 

.A. M ....".......'.'.'.' 

Phil Min. Pres. Southern Univ Greensboro. 

M. D Physician Warren, Ark. 

• A. B Minister Pres. Southern Universitv ' 

. Phil Minster 

M. D Banker Greensboro. 



110 



THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 



•Mitchell, T. D A. M Teacher 

Moore, A. H B. P Minister Greensboro. 

Morris, Moses N B. P Minister Trinity. 

Murrah, Wm, B A. B Ministers, Pres. Millsaps Col. Jackson, Miss 

Nelson, Thos, Y M. D Physician 

•Peterson, F. M B. D Pres. A. G. I. S 

1S75 

Allen, Wm. H B. P Terrell, Tex. 

Cox, Luther M Three Schools Teacher Carthage, Miss. 

•Gamble, J. A B. P 

•Grote. C. A A. M Prof Natural Science S. U 

•Hill, Geo. W A. M Prof. Latin, Hendrix College 

Inge, Z. M. P A. B Attorney Mobile. 

•Moss, Joshua A. M 

Reed, B. F A. B., M. D Physician Vernon. 

1876 



Holloman, T. A A. M Merchant Flora, Miss. 

•Kelley, C. H B. P Minister 

Moore, A. H A. M Minister Greensboro. 

•Skinner, J. L B. P Business 

Smith, A. W A. M Banker Birmingham. 



1877 



Bizzell, F. A.. 
McCann, J. E. 
•Skinner, Geo. 
Vick, N. J 



.A. B Atlanta, Ga. (?) 

.A. M Minister Prattville. 

.B. P Business 

.A. M Planter Auguilla, Miss. 



1878 



Chappelle, L. H. S Three Schools.. 

DuBois, Jno. W B. P. 

Jack, Thos. H B. P... 

Moore, Jno. W B. P. .. 

Taylor, T. A 

•Yerby, Jno. D 



.Minister Demopolis. 

.Supt. Schools Calera. 

.Minister Blooming Grove, Tex. 

.Business Birmingham. 

Mobile. 



,B. P Teacher 

.B. P Supt. Schools 



1S79 



Hurt, Wm. P... 
Landrum, L. D. 

Moore, J. W 

Taylor, T. A... 
•Yerby, Jno. D. 



.B. P Minister Dothan. 

.B. P Attorney Columbus, Miss. 

,A. B Business Birmingham. 

.A. B Teacher Mobile. 

.A. B Supt. Schools Mobile. 



18S0 



deGraffenried, Edw. W A. M. 

Hurt, W. P A. B. 

Jack. Thos. H A. B. 

•Moore, Jas. A A. B. 

Moore, Jno. W A. M. 

•Spurlock. Jas. M A. B. 



.Attorney Greensboro. 

.Minister Dothan. 

.Minister Blooming Grove, Tex. 

,Prof. Math Millsaps College, 

.Business Birmingham. 

. Attorney 



: Moore. J. A A. M. 



Prof. Math., Millsap College. 



Moore, Marcus H B. P Minister Sharon, Miss. 

Taylor, T. A A. M Teacher Mobile. 

Young, Hy. A A. B Banker Ann'ston. 



1SS2 



Coleman, Phares A. B Attorney Montgomery. 

Moore, M. H A. B Minister Sharon, Miss. 

Webb, Jas. H A. B Attorney Mobile. 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 



111 



1884 



Hosmer, Sam'l. M B. P Minister Pres. S. U Gieensboro. 

♦Sellers, Geo. M B. P Minister 

Smith, Amos Latin Business Prattville. 

Stott, W. P B. P Teacher Seale. 

♦Williams, D. B B. S 

*Wood, P. G., Jr A. B Attorney 



Branscomb, L. C. 
Livingston, G. S. 
♦Lowrey, W. H. , 
McCarty, T. R. .. 
Moore, W. W. . . . 

Warner... 
Edw. L. 

W. F 

A. L 



Mooie, 
Patton 
Scales, 
Smith, 
♦Wood, P. G., Jr. 



.Minister Talladega. 

.Attorney, Judge Prattville. 

• Minister 

.Business Birmingham. 

.Minister Montrose, Miss. 



M Minister Sipley, Tenn. 

P Business Birmingham. 

P Physician Mobile. 

S Business Prattville. 

M Attorney 



18S6 



Andrews, Wm. F. . 
Andrews, Allen L. 
Branscomb, L. C. . 
♦Burton, Geo. W. . 
♦Chapman, Geo. C. 
Chapman, M. B. .. 
Dent, Stanley H., 

Fan ish, H. B 

♦Hand, O. C 

Hobson, S. A 

McCarty, T. R. . . . 

Moore, Jas. L 

Rogers, F. A 

Rush, C. A 

Wood, F. M 



Jr. 



.A. 
.A. 
.A. 
.A. 
..B. 
.B. 
.A. 
.A. 
..B. 
.A. 
A. 
..B. 
..A. 
..A. 
.A. 



Min'ster St. Louis, Mo. 

.Minister Dallas. Tex. 

.Minister Talladega. 

.Teacher 



P Physician 

P Minister Louisville. 

B Attorney, Congressman Montgomery. 

B Business Ft. Valley, Ga. 

S Teacher 

B Attorney Birmingham. 

M Business Birmingram. 

P Merchant Kansas City, Mo. 

B Minister Pensacola, Fla. 

B Minister Mobile. 

B Minister EutaW. 



18S7 



Andrews, A. L A. 

Atkins, A. H A. 

Benners. H. G A. 

♦Chapman, G. C B. 

Christenberry, D. P B. 

Culver, F. P B. 

Edmonson, E. L B. 

♦Ellis, J. D A. 

Farrish. O. C B. 

Gillis, Jno. F A. 

Griswold, J. F B. 

Hendricks, W. B A. 

Highto wer, R. G B. 

Knight, T. E A. 

Long, R. H B. 

Mangum, W. W B. 

Manning, M. N B. 

Patillo, N. A B. 

Porter, F. E B. 

Porter, W. R B. 

Radney, J. W B. 

Roberts, S. W A. 

Robertson, J. S B. 

Simpson, J. D B. 

Smiley, H. A B. 

Strout, H. T A. 

Wilkerson, J. H B. 

Wood, F. M A. 



M Minister Dallas, Tex. 

B Minister Lowreyville, S. C. 

B Attorney, Journalist Greensboro. 

S Physician 

P Prof. English S. U Greensboro. 

S Minister Birmingham. 

S Cotton Buyer Eufaula. 

M Minister Ed. Ala. Chr. Advocate. 

S Dentist Camden. 

B Attorney and Planter Grove Hill. 

P Minister Colorado, Tex. 

M Physician Hurtsboro. 

P Teacher Troy, R. F. D. 

B Attorney Greensboro. 

P Merchant Gainesville. 

S Physician Eufaula. 

S Journalist, Judge Dadeville. 

S Prof. Worn. College Lynchburg, Va. 

P Clerk Treas. Dept. A Bldg. Panama, R. P. 

P Druggist Denver, Colo. 

S Merchant Roanoke. 

B Minister Uniontown. 

P Minister Decatur. 

P Minister Anniston. 

P Teacher Jonesboro. 

B Min : ster Monroeville. 

S Attorney Elba. 

M Minister Eutaw. 



112 



THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 



Allgood, R. V B. 

Atkinson, C. P B. 

Beavers, Jno. R A. 

Benners, H. G A. 

Brown, E. L B. 

Butler, Chas H B. 

Christenberry, D. P A. 

Culver, F. P A. 

Gavvin, C. W B. 

Giddens, L. P A. 

Glenn, Jas. M A. 

Goodloe, Jno. R B. 

Griffin, R. J B. 

*Ha\vkins, B. H B. 

Jenkins, Geo. L B. 

McCoy, Jas. H A. 

McGlaun, Jas. R B. 

McVoy, A. D. B A. 

Miller, Jas. M B. 

Phillips, E. L B. 

*Poole, L. R B. 

Scott, A. J B. 

♦Sellers, Geo. M A. 

♦Smith. L. L A. 

Tate, J. B B. 

*Trammell, E. H B. 

Trawick, Hy B. 

Wadsworth, Wm. A B. 

Watkins. Jos. R B. 



P Prin. Pub. Schools Avondale. 

S Prof. Philosophy S. U Greensboro. 

M Attorney Columbiana. 

M Attorney, Journalist Greensboro. 

P Prof. Chem Birmingham. 

S Merchant Childersburg. 

M Prof. English, S. U Greensboro. 

M Minister Birmingham. 

P M nister Pensacola, Fla. 

B Prof. Math. B. C Birmingham. 

B Minister Tallassee. 

P Physician Demopolis. 

P Physician Moundville. 

P Minister 

S Minister Tuscaloosa. 

B Minister Pres. Bham. Col Birmingham. 

P Minister Tinela. 

B Ministers 

P Attorney Linden. 

P Columbus, Miss. 

P Attorney 

P Adj. General of Ga Atlanta, Ga. 

M Minister 

B Minister 

P Minister 

P Teacher , 

P Minister 

S Planter 



Evergreen. 



Greensboro. 

Prattville. 

Druggist Alexander City. 



18S9 



Ballard, G. C A. 

Brown, E. L B. 

Brown, P. U B. 

Chadwick, J. S A. 

Drennen, F. M B. 

Elliott, E. M B. 

Freeman, J. D B. 

Felton, T. A B. 

*Hand, O. C A. 

Hawkins, Ira F A. 

Holdridge, W. J B. 

Howard, H. C B. 

Jack, E. S A. 

*Lockhart, J. D A. 

McCoy, J. H A. 

*Miller, J. W B. 

Morris, J. L B. 

*McLaurin, Duncan B. 

*Nix, W. F A. 

Pruett, T. J A. 

*Smith. L. L A. 

Wall, R. A A. 

♦Williams, C. H A. 



B Physician Newellton, La. 

S Teacher Birmingham. 

P Physician Troy. 

B Minister, Ed. Ala. Chr. Adv. ..Birmingham. 

P Merchant Birmingham. 

S Mei chant Moundville. 

P Physician 

P Merchant Little Rock, Ark. 

M Teacher 

B Minister Gadsden. 

P Teacher Lineville. 

S Minister Jasper. 

B Attorney Greensboro. 

B Minister 

M Minister Pres. B. C Birmingham. 

P Physician 

P Merchant Jasper. 

P Physician 

B Attorney 

B Physician Hurtsboro. 

M Minister 

B Physician 

B Minister 



1S90 



Allgood, R. V B. S Prin. Pub. School Avondale. 

Atkinson, Chas. P A. M Minister, Prof. Phil. S. U Greensboro. 

Benners ' A A. B Attorney Birmingham. 

Benson!" WW..." A. B Teacher Geneva. 

Bradley Lee C A. B Attorney Birmingham. 

Bynum,' J. L B. P Teacher Bynum. 

Dent Hv A A. B Nav Officer, Nav. Dept. Washington, D. C. 

*Haukins," E."h. .'.'!•! !.'.'.' !!" A. M Minister 

Haygood W L B. P Business Montgomery. 

Hobson, 'jas. M A. B Cotton Buyer 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 



113 



Huffstutler, J. A B. P Teacher Pratt City. 

Ledbetter, E. W B. S Business Anniston. 

Lewis, E. S B. P Minister Winona, Miss. 

*Long, Harvey C A. B 

Monette, R. F B. S Physician Greensboro. 

Morris, W. E B. P Minister Bessemer. 

Patillo, N. A A. M Prof. Worn. Coll Lynchburg, Va. 

Pierce, R. S B. P Physician Mariana, Fla. 

Rutherford, J. W. B. P Physician Franklin. 

Stabler, S. P A. B. and Mod. Lan Merchant, Atty Lower Peach Tree. 

Stevenson, L. M B. P Teacher Bessemer. 

Strickland, Robt B. S Merchant Birmingham. 

, B. P Teacher Hackneyville. 



Striplin, C. F. ... 
Thomason, J. E. 



Turner, Edw. K A. 

Watkins, Jas. P A. 

Whitfield, S. T A. 



.B. P Wedowee. 

B Prof. Latin, Emory Coll Oxford, Ga. 

B Physician Opelika. 

B Physician Uniontown. 



1S91 



Adams. J. B 

Ansley, H. M.... 
Bradley, L. C. ... 
Chadwick, J. S. . 
Crawford, E. L. 
Flowers, E. P... 

Gavin, R. S 

Glenn, J. M 

Griswold, J. T. . . 

Hawkins, I. F 

McVoy, E. C 

Moody, R. A 

Patterson, J. D. 
Patterson, T. M. 

Pruett, T. J 

Sanders, S. T 

Sledge, F. M 

Smithson, E. E. 
Stevenson, O. H. 

Stokes, F. E 

Stowers, Geo 

Street, S. A 



A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

A. 

A. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

A. 

B. 

Tiawick, Hy .' A. 

Turner, J. G A. 

Whitman, S B. 

Williams. R. L A. 



B Minister 

M 501-06 Herman Bldg. ... 

M Attorney 

M Minister, Ed. Ala. Chr. 

B Minister 

B Manufacturer 

B Minister 

M Minister 

B Minister 

M Minister 



Marion, Ky. 

New Orleans, La. 

Birmingham. 

Adv. . .Birmingham. 

Union Springs. 

Montgomery. 

Besemer. 

Tallassee. 

Colorado, Tex. 

Gadsden. 



B Minister St. Louis, Mo. 

P Minister Eutaw. 

S Teacher , Elba. 

S Attorney Louisville. 

M Physician Hurtsboro. 

B Prof. U. La Baton Rouge, La. 

P Merchant Greensboro. 

P Merchant Bessemer. 

S Journalist Roanoke. 

P Louisiana. 

B Attorney Montgomery. 

P Physician Clayton. 

B Minister Greensboro. 

B Cotton Buyer Greensboro. 

S Attorney Paulding, Miss. 

B Chief Justice Sup. Court, ..Guthrie, Okla. 



1892 



Andrews, Leigh A. B. 

*Castleman, D. J A. M. 



..Attorney Sheffield. 

..Physician 

S ......" 

P Minister Centerville. 

B Physician Mobile. 

S Attosney 

B Teacher Luverne! 

B Teacher Florida. 

P Minister Fayette. 

&-. B Minister, Asst. Ed. Ala. Adv... Birmingham. 

• B. S Attorney Ozark. 

B. S Teacher Tuskegee. 

B. P Physician Coffee Springs. 

Stowers, Geo A. M Attorney Montgomery 

Terrall. S. H., Jr B. S Attorney Quitmann, Miss.' 

Thames, J. D A. B Attorney Vicksburg, Miss. 

Turner, E. K A. M Prof. Latin, Emory College.. Oxford, Ga. 

Wilkinson, D. L A. B Physician Montevallo 



Coale, H. W. .. 
Dismukes, D. B. 

Inge, J. T 

Jack, H. C 

McLeod, W. S. . . 

Meek, R. O 

Morris, J. E 

Motley, C. H. .. 
Riley, J. E. Z... ( 

Riley, W. B 

Riley, H. C 



114 



THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 



1893 



Benson, W. W A. 

Bowen, A. C A. 

Crumley, Levi A B. 

deGraffenreid, F. M A. 

Eckford, Jas. W A. 

Ellis, Geo.C B. 

Feagin, J. F A. 

Freeman, J. S B. 

Howard, P. J A. 

Inge, Z. M. P A. 

McCarty, Hy. D A. 

Meek, R. O \. 

Mollis, W. E B. 

Motley, Chas. H A. 

Roberts, Thos. K A. 

Sheppard, F. J A. 

Turner, Walter A. 

Turnipseed, Wm. E A. 

Tyler, Robt. E A. 

Wall. W. D B. 

Webb, A. P A. 

Watkins, J. K A. 



Geneva. 

Prof. Soochow Univ China. 

Birmingham. 

Attorney Seale. 



M Teacher 

M Minister, 

S Dentist 

M Analytical Chem. 

B Physician Macon, Miss. 

S Analytical Chem. druggist Avondale. 

B Minister Fairford. 

S Physician Gamble Mines. 

B Prof. Med. Dept. U. of A Mobile. 

M Attorney Mobile. 

B Attorney Anniston. 

M Teacher Florida. 

S Minister Bessemer. 

M Minister, Ast. Ed. Ala. Adv. Birmingham. 

B Minister Coleman. 

B Lumber Dealer Ensley. 

B Business Atlanta, Ga. 

B Teacher High School Attalla, Ala. 

B Minister Mexico. 

P Merchant Sardis, Miss. 

B Physician At more. 

B Attorney Opelika. 



1S94. 



Andrew's, J. H — 

Benson, L. K 

Bickerstaff, J. H., 
Brock, J. A. J. . . . 
Christian, J. J.... 

Davis, J. H 

Bills, C. S 

Feagin, J. F 

Hall, D. M 

Inge, W. B 

*Kittrell. B. H... 

Lewis, E. S 

Massey, L. V 

Moore, J. A 

Riley, A. E 

Roberts, T. K.... 

Russell, H 

Shruptrine, C. E. 

Wa'-d, J. R 

Williams. R. L. . 



.A. 
• A. 
..B. 
..B. 

.B. 

.B. 

.A. 
.A. 

.B. 

A. 

.B. 
..A. 



.A. B 
.B. P 
.B. 
A. 
A. 
,.B. 
.A. 
A. 



.Supt. Schools Marianna, Ark. 

.Teacher Prin. High School Monroeville. 

.Physician Pensacola, Fla. 

.Minister Decatur. 

.Merchant Greensboro. 

.Teacher 

.Attorney Birmingham. 

.Ministe r Fairford. 

.Dentist Eutaw. 

..Attorney Mobile. 

..Physician 

..Minister Wynona, Miss. 

..Electrician Memphis, Tenn. 

..Prof. A. G. I. S Montevallo. 

S Teacher Hartford. 

M Minister Coleman. 

B Business Ensley. 

P Planter Safford. 

B Teacher Tallassee. 

M Chief Justice Sup. Court. . .Guthrie, Okla. 



B. 



1895 



A. J 

I. W 

W. H 

J. O 

M 

R. H Three 

B. F 

O. B 



B Minister Louisville. 

R Minister Livingston. 

M Minister Decatur. 

P Minister Abbeville. 

B Lawyer Camden. 

M Minister, Pres. S. U 

S Merchant Cordova. 

Schools Attorney Selma. 

..A. B Minister Gastonburg. 

..A. B Mail Clerk East Lake. 



Bickerstaff, W. 

Bilbro, 1. P.... 

Brock, J. 

Chalker, 

Hawkins. 

"■Keener, 

Long, 1'. 

Mangum, 

Marshall, 

Newman, 

Tatom, H. F Applied Chem Architect Birmingham. 

Watkins, T. H A. B Attorney Dadeville. 



.A. 
.A. 
.A. 
.B. 
.A. 

.A. 

.B. 



1S9C 



Allen, B. S 

Carmichael, M. S 

Cocke, .T. D. W Three 

Craig, J. C 

Curtis, W. M 



..A. B Physician Louisville, Ky. 

..A. B Editor Elba. 

Schools Business N. Y. City. 

..B. P Minister Oakbowery. 

..A. B Minister Montgomery. 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 



115 



Holman. H. L. . 
Howard, I. W. .. 
Martin, W. E..., 

Morris, T. M 

Northcutt, J. E. 
Peterson, F. R. . . 
Simpson, J. D... 
Wilkinson, J. E. 



.A. M Physician Ozark. 

..B. P Physician Chattanooga, Tenn., (?) 

.A. M Pres. Sullins Coll Bristol, Va.-Tenn. 

..B. P Merchant Jasper. 

• A. B Minister DeFuniak, Fla. 

..A. B Business Mobile. 

• A. B Minister Anniston. 

• •A. B Attorney Selma. 



1897 



Abernathy, T. P B. P Physician Havana. 

Baxley, J. A B. S Prin. Pub. School Greensboro. 

Harlan, J. H Three Schools Physician Bartlett, Tex. 

Henry, T. H B. S Physician Tuscumbia. 

Kendrick, B. M B. S Physician Luverne. 

Leonard, J. H A. B Physician Birmingham. 

Blocton. 



Martin, C. P. 



S Physician 



B. 

Meigs, S. C B. P Physician Centerville. 

Pickett, Miss M. (Wright) A. B U. S. Navy Mare Island, Cal. 

Smith, A. C B. P Minister LaFayette, La. 

Turnipseed, W. E A. M Teacher, Co. High School Attalla. 

Williams, C. A A. M Minister Midway! 

1898 



Baxley, J. A A. M Prin. Pub. School Greensboro. 

Bush, C. F A. B Physician Thomasville. 

Berry, Edw. W A. B Banker Camden. 

Curtis, W. M A. M Minister Montgomery! 

Hawkins, W. H A. M Attorney Camden! 

Hightower, J. H B. S Teacher High Ridge! 

Hobson, J. M., Jr A. B Lieut. U. S. Army Havana Cuba" 

*Kerr, P. T A. B [ 

*Kimbrough, T. A A. B !!!!!!" 

Ormond, M. T A. B Attorney Tuscaloosa. 

Peterson, F. R A. M Business Mobile! 

Pippin, M. M B. S Teacher Ozark! 

Siddon, Wm A. M Teacher Bowling Green, Miss! 

Birmingham. 



Sims, Jno. L A. 



Stoves, Geo Three Schools 

Tucker, R. A B. P. 



Attorney 
Minister 



Roanoke. 

Sardis, Miss. 



.B. P Business New York. 

B. M Minister Opelika! 

A. M Minister Birmingham. 

A. B Attorney Jasper. 

Birmingham. 

S Planter Mulberry. 

B Prof. Ethics Harvard, Univ. 

B Banking Dothan. 

B Minister Birmingham. 

B Physician Mobile. 

M Minister Mobile. 

Slaughter, D. P A. B Minister Auburn. 

Terry, Jas. E B. P Physician Red Level" 



Bailey, L. R 

Calhoun, O. V 

Dobbs, H. M 

Gamble, F. A 

Hamilton, W. Chalmers A. B Banking 

Howard, F. M B. 

McConnell, R. M: A. 

Malone, J. W A. 

Mathews, K. N A. 

Peterson, E. A A. 

Seay, Frank A. 



1900 



Chilton, C. L 

Dickinson, W. P. 

Gamble, F. K 

Henry, W. G 

James, Jno. C 

Jackson, A. F 

Laws. in, L. J, Jr. 
McNeal, Wm. H. . 
Morland, M. E 



•A. B Banking Montgomery. 

■B. P Physician LaFayette. 

.A. M Missionary Corea. 

A. B Minister Pratt City. 

• A. B Minister .'.... Eufaula! 

• A - B Teacher Linden. 

••A. B Banking Greensboro. 

• A. B Minister Mobile. 

•B. S Physician Birmingham. 



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THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 



A. B 

B. P Teacher Flora. 

A. B ..Minister Birmingham. 

A. B...- Bank Clerk Selma. 

A. B Greensboro. 

A. B .Attorney .. Tuscaloosa. 



Onnond. T. F 

Owen, C. A 

Price, \Vm. F 

Thomas, P. O 

Waller, Miss Alice (Coleman) 

Ward, T. B 

Weems, Chas. S B. S Merchant Shubuta, Miss 

Wilson, Jno. W B. P Physician Orrville 



1901 



Callaway, Eugene A. 

Chilton, C. L., Jr A. 

Holloway, Jno. H A. 

Howard. T. L A. 

James, Jas. H. Jr A 

Lowrey, B. N A. 

Liles. L. P A. 

Jones, Lee A. 

Paul, Elza B A. 

Pearson, M. H A. 

Pickett, Miss Pauline A. 

Shoaff, D. E A. 

Turnipseed, D. C, Jr A. 

Turnipseed, S. U B. 

Waller, C. E., Jr A. 

Watson. J. W A. 

Ward. Wm. L A. 



B Physician New York. 

M Banking Montgomery. 

B Minister Brundidge. 

B Physician Selma. 

B Attorney Uniontown. 

B Teacher San Francisan, La. 

B Business Birmingham. 

B Physician Greensboro. 

B Minister .. j Randolph. 

B... Teacher Dothan. 

B Mare Island, Cal. 

B .Business Birmingham. 

M Physician Union Springs. 

P .Student Vanderbilt. 

B Banking Greensboro. 

B ..Teacher . . Newberne. 

B Attorney Marianna, Ark. 



Chilton. W. P A. 

Chapman, F. E A. 

Davis, A. C A. 

Echols, Robt A. 

Ellison. R. R A. 

Farrior. J. B A. 

Green, Lemuel B A. 

Gamble ,f. k ....a. 

Holloway. Jno. H A. 

Howell. Wm. R A. 

Hudson, H. V A. 

Hutchinson. C. E A. 

Ledbetter, Jno. W A. 

Pickett, Miss Pauline A. 

Seay. Miss Amy (Lawson) A. 

Sessions, Robt. E A. 

Slocum, Robt. G A. 

ThreadgUl, B. C A. 

Turnipseed. W. F A. 

Tyler, R. T A. 



1902 



B Publisher Montgomery. 

B Prof. Mathematics S. U Greensboro. 

B Business Montgomery. 

B Minister Attalla. 

B Minister Montgomery. 

B Physician Chipley, Fla. 

B Minister Opp, 

M Missionary Corea. 

M ..Minister Fitzpatrick. 

B Minister Guntersville. 

B Teacher Rushton, La. 

B Physician London, Eng. 

B Minister Gadsden. 

M Mare Island, Cal. 

M Greensboro. 

B Teacher Huntsville. 

B Lawyer 

M Business Birmingham. 

B Dentist Eufaula. 

B Minister Birmingham. 



1903 



A. M Publisher Montgomery. 

A. B ;.. Hospital Physician New York. 

.A. M ..Minister Montgomery. 

A. M Minister Opp. 

.A. M Physician Montgomery. 



Chilton. W. P 

Dunlap, E. B 

Ellison, R. R 

Green, L. B 

McGehee, W. W 

Moore. Roy A. B Minister Orion. 

Purcell. T. M A. B Teacher 

Threefoot, Miss F. M. (Walker).. A. B Mobile. 

Waller. Miss K. A A. B Greensboro. 

Watkins, Leon H A. B Med. Stud Johns Hopkins University. 

Welch. Stewart H A. B Physician New Yoik. 



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117 



Bryant, F. H 

Chappelle, Jno. D 

Grote, Miss Minna T. 

Hudson, H. V 

McNeal, D. H 

Seay, Miss Annie . . . 
Vaughn, Harvey P... 



1904 

.A. B Business Birmingham. 

.A. B Attorney Oklahoma. 

.A. B Teacher, A. G. I. S Montevallo. 

A. M Teacher Rushton, La. 



.A. B. 



.Minister 



Montgomery. 



A. B Greensboro. 

A. B Student Vanderbilt. 

Walton, Miss Lucy O A. B Teacher East Lake. 

Webster, Chas. H A. B Student Vanderbilt University. 



1905 



Bradley, Bret B A. B. 

Cryer, Wm. H A. B. 

Daniel, C. C A. B. 

Frazer, Jno. W A. B. 

Littleton, Miss Martha E A. 

McGehee. Robt. B A. 

Moore, Wesley A A. 

Moore, Roy A. 

Norwood, Thos. S A. 

Perry, Wilbur D A. 

Puckett, Hugh W A, 



.Surveying 



Frederick, Okla., RFD. 3. 



.Physician Tallassee. 

Vanderbilt University. 

Vanderbilt University. 

Univ. 111. 

Vanderbilt University. 

Montgomery. 

Orion. 



Student 

Student 

B Student 

B Student 

B Teacher 

M Minister 

B Business Atoka, I. T. 

B Teacher Stockton. 

B Prof. Mod. Lang., B'ham College.. B' ham. 



Watkins, Leon H A. M Med. Student Johns Hopkins Univ. 



Daniel, Chas. D... 
Dominick, F. M.. 
Littleton, Jesse T. 

Mason, I. P 

McGehee. Paul D. 



A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

Pearson. David M A. 

Perry, Wm. S A. 

Ray, Arthur G A. 

Rice, Herbert W A. 

Sadler, Wm. H A. 

Seay, Miss Annie A. 

Turnipseed, Wm. O A. 

Walton, Miss Lucy Ora A. 

Willcoxon, Jas. T A. 

Tutwiler, Miss Rosalie A. 



1906 

B Secy. Y. M. C. A Vanderbilt Univ. 

B Teacher Epes. 

B Fellow Univ. of Wisconsin. 

B Teacher Columbiana. 

B Medical Student Mobile. 

B Teacher Dixon's Mills. 

B Teacher Enterprise. 

B Business New York City. 

B Student Vanderbilt Univ. 

B Law Student Univ. of Virginia. 

M Greensboro. 

B Attorney Union Springs. 

M Teacher East Lake. 

B Medical Missionary. 

B Teacher State Normal Livingston. 



1907 



DeBardeleben, Jno. T A. 

Littleton, Leonidas R A. 

Lloyd, Oscar C A. 

Lazenby, Marion E A. 

Mills, Robt. J A. 

Perry, Dow L. Jr A. 

Turnipseed, F. T A. 

Tiller, Willie T A. 

Williams. S. W. H A. 

Williams, Jno. H A. 

Wheeler. Wm. W A. 

Wilkinson, Herbert H A. 

Wood, Jas. A A. 

Wood, Chas. H A. 



B Teacher Forest Home. 

B Student Tulane Univ. 

B Student Vanderbilt Univ. 

B Missionary Havana, Cuba. 

B Minister Verbena. 

B Teacher Abbeville. 

B Business Montgomery. 

B Student Vanderbilt Univ. 

B Attorney Greensboro. 

B Minister, Missionary Mexico. 

B Teacher Northport. 

B Business Gastonburg. 

B Teacher Johns Hopkins. 

B Business Colorado Springs, Colo. 

1908 



Berry, B. Edwards A. B Teacher Lower Peach Tree. 

Bevill, Durant D A. B Business Jackson. 

Cammack, Norphlet G. Jr A. B Student A. P. I Auburn. 

Cannon, Wm. J. Jr A. B Business Sylacauga. 

DuBois, H. H. Slaton A. B Minister, Student Vanderbilt. 



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THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 



Grote, Carl A A. B Teacher 

Hamilton, Alfred P.. A. B Tutor Southern University. 

McCann, Irving G A. B Student Vanderbilt Univ. 

Sellers, Walter M A. B Prof. Chemistry Hamilton. 

Tutwller, Miss Agnes M A. B Physician Mexico City. 

Watson, Geo. M A. B. ( A. M Life Insurance Greensboro. 



Honorary Degrees Conferred 



Anderson, Wm. H D. D. 

Marvin, Bishop B. M D. D. 

1867 

Fitzgerald, Bishop O. P D. D. 

Lee, Nathaniel H D. D. 

1868 

Campbell, C. D. N D. D. 

Bedford, A. H D. D. 

1869 
Andrews, Allen S D. D. 

1874 
Finney, Thos. M D. D. 

1879 

Blue, O. R D. D. 

Keener, Jno. C LL. D. 

Moore, Jno. S D. D. 

Morgan, Jno. T LL. D. 

1886 

Black, W. C D. D. 

Bounds, E. M D. D. 

Seay, Thos LL. D. 

1887 

Bonnell, Prof Ph. D. 

1888 

Andrews, Allen S LL. D. 

Cameron, J. D D. D. 

Chapman, M. B D. D. 

Phillips, J. H Ph. D. 

Rankin, C. Y D. D. 

1889 

Gregory, J. B D. D. 

Mason, J. M D. D. 

Newrran, J. W D. D. 

1891 

Allen, J. R D. D. 



Hawkins, V. O D. D. 

Hosmer, Samuel M D. D. 

Keener, J. O D. D. 

1894. 

Garrett, J. J LL. D. 

Lovett, W. C D. D. 

Shoaff, J. W D. D. 

1896 

Moore, Warner D. D. 

Lamar, A. J D. D. 

1900 

Peterson, F. M D. D. 

1901 

Dobbs, S. L D. D. 

Frazer, J. S D. D. 

1902 

Andrews, A. L D. D. 

Peterson, Jno. A D. D. 

Weber, J. L D. D. 

Winton, Geo. B D. D. 

1904 

McGehee, O. C D. D. 

1905 

Coleman, A. A d. D. 

1906 

Hobson, Richmond F LL. D. 

Hurt, Wm. P D. D. 

Isaacs, W. G D. D. 

McCoy, J. H D. D. 

1908 

Comer, B. B LL. D. 

Dannelly, J. M D. D. 

Howard, H. C D. D. 

McVoy, E. C D. D. 



FACULTY, 1906. 

Rev. Samuel Monroe Hosmer, Ph. B., D. D., 
Professor Biblical Literature. 

Ph. B. Southern University, 1884; D. D. Southern University, 1893; 
President and Professor Biblical Literature, Southern Univer- 
sity, 1899— 

Daniel Pinkney Christenberry, A. M., 
Professor of English Language and Literature. 

Ph. B., Southern University, 1887; A. M. Southern University, 
1888; Principal Greenville Collegiate Institute, Greenville, 
Ala., 1888-89; President Greensboro Female College, Greens- 
boro, Ala., 1889-92; Special Courses at Harvard University, 
1893, 1895, and 1905; Professor of English, Southern Uni- 
versity, 1892— 

LUCIEN PlNKARD GlDDENS, A. B., 

Professor of Mathematics. 

A. B., Southern University, 1888; Instructor in Mathematics, 
Southern University, 1887-88; Principal High School, Bir- 
mingham, Ala., 1889-93; Professor Mathematics, Athens Fe- 
male College, 1893-94; Special Courses at Harvard Univer- 
sity, Summers 1895 and 1905; Professor of Mathematics. 
Southern University, 1894-1905. 

Jesse Talbot Littleton, A. M., Litt. D., 
Professor Modern Languages. 

A. M., Randolph-Macon College, 1880; Tutor in Greek, Randolph- 
Macon College; Special work in French and German, College 
des Langues, Amherst; Principal Belle Haven Academy; Pro- 
fessor Modern Languages, W. F. College, N. C, and Dan- 
ville College for Young Ladies, Va.; Professor Greek and 
German, Wofford College, S. C, three years; Professor English 
and Modern Languages, Emory and Henry, Va., 1893-99; Litt. 
D. (Honorary) Kentucky Wesleyan College, 1903; L.L. D. 
Honorary Emory and Henry, 1908; Professor of Modern Lan- 
guages, Southern University, 1899 — 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 121 

Edward Laughton Colebeck, B. A., M. A, 
Professor Ancient Languages. 

B. A., Northwestern University, 1893; M. A., Northwestern Uni- 
versity, 1894; Professor of Greek and Latin, Western Col- 
lege, Iowa, 1894-97; Graduate-student in University of Chi- 
cago, 1897-98; Graduate-student in Yale University, 1898-99; 
Graduate-student in University of Wisconsin (W. F. Allen 
Graduate Scholarship in the Classics), 1899-1900; Professor 
of Greek and Latin, Southern University, 1900-1905. 

Burt Parker Richardson, B. S , Ph. B., 
Professor of Science. 

B. S. D., Warrensburg, Mo, State Normal School, 1895; Physics 
and Chemistry, City High School Springfield, Mo., 1895-99; 
Student at University of Missouri, Summers of 1897 and 1899 ; 
Student at University of Chicago, Summer of 1898; Instruc- 
tor in Physics and Chemistry, Drury College, Mo., 1899-1892; 
Graduate of School of Expression, Drury College, 1901; B. S., 
Drury College. 1901; Graduate Work in Chemistry, University 
of Chicago, Summers of 1902 and 1903; Student in Biology, 
Warrensburg State Normal School, Summer of 1903; Graduate 
Student in Chemistry, University of Chicago, Summer of 
1904; Ph. B., University of Chicago, September, 1904; Botany 
and Chemistry, University of Chicago, Summer, 1905; Pro- 
fessor of Science, Southern University, 1903— 

Charles Prescott Atkinson, B. S., A. M. 
Professor of Moral Philosophy. 

B. S., Southern University, 1888; A. M., Southern University, 
1890; Teacher in High School ; 1888-89; Tutor in Southern 
University, 1889-90-; Special Course at Harvard University, 
Summer of 1905; Professor of Moral Philosophy, Southern 
University, 1904 — 

Alfred Porter Hamilton, 

Tutor in Latin. 
John Henry Williams, 

Tutor in Greek. 
Willie Thomas Tiller, 

Tutor in Latin. 
Marion Elias Lazenby, 

Tutor in English. 

Bonney Edwards Berry, 

Tutor in Mathematics. 



THE STANDARD COLLEGE. 



Twelfth Annual Report Board of Education M. E. C. 

S., August, 1906, written by the Commission, 1904. 

Classification of Educational Institutions. 



The law of our church requires that the Board of Edu- 
cation shall classify our schools in accordance with the 
Standard of Requirements prepared by a body of ten 
practical educators known as the Commission on Educa- 
tion. The law (Discipline of 1906, paragraph 435, is as 
follows : 

There shall be a commission of ten practical educators, 
appointed quadrennially by the College of Bishops, who, 
shall prescribe the minimum requirements to be demand- 
ed of institutions seeking recognition by the Board of 
Education as secondary schools (academies), colleges, 
and universities. This commission shall, at least once 
in every four years, report to the Board of Education 
its work; and it shall then be the duty of the Board to 
classify all the educational institutions of our Church 
and to designate each as university, college, or academy 
(or secondary school), according to the relation of the 
work done by it to the standards thus established by the 
commission, and to use this classification in the official 
lists of the educational institutions of our Church. 

In 1898, under this provision of the Discipline, a Com- 
mission on Education was created to provide a standard 
of classification, and at a meeting of the Board in Nash- 
ville, August 23, 1899, the first official classification of 
the institutions of the Church was made. The standard 
herewith printed was adopted by the Commission at a 
meeting held in Nashville April 26, 1904, and in accord- 
ance with it the institutions that appear elsewhere in 
this report have been classified. The work of classifi- 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 123 

cation is one of the most difficult and important things 
which has been intrusted to the Board, and an earnest 
effort has been made to do it with thoroughness and im- 
partiality. The results of the Board's labors will be seen 
in the official list of intsitutions given below, accom- 
panied by such statistics as could be secured. We ask the 
hearty co-operation of all our educators and pastors, that 
the statistics may be improved from year to year. 

The Commission on Education, which met April 26, 
1904, reported the following: 

STANDARD OF REQUIREMENTS. 

For Admission to College for the A. B. 
I. English. 

1. Higher English Grammar. 

2. Elements of Rhetoric and weekly written composi- 
tions. 

3. English Literature, including the special study of 
some works and the reading of others, as laid down in the 
requirements of the Southern and other associations of 
schools and colleges in the United States, as follows : 

(a) Reading. — A certain number of books will be set 
for reading. The candidate will be required to present 
evidence of a general knowledge of the subject-matter 
and to answer simple questions on the lives of the authors. 
The form of examination will usually be the writing of a 
paragraph or two on each of several topics, to be chosen 
by the candidate from a cconsiderable number — perhaps 
ten or fifteen — set before him in the examination paper. 
The treatment of these topics is designed to test the can- 
didate's power of clear and accurate expression, and will 
call for only a general knowledge of the substance of the 
books. The candidate is expected to read intelligently all 
the books prescribed. He is expected not to know them 



124 THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 

minutely, but to have fresh in mind their most important 
parts. In every case knowledge of the books will be re- 
garded as less important than the ability to write good 
English. In preparation for this part of the requirement 
it is important that the candidate shall have been in- 
structed in the fundamental principles of rhetoric. 

In 1904 and 1905 the topics will be drawn from the fol- 
lowing works : Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" 
and "Julius Caesar," the "Sir Roger de Coverley Papers" 
in the Spectator, Goldsmith's "The Vicar of Wakefield," 
Coleridge's "The Ancient Mariner," Scott's "Ivanhoe," 
Carlyle's "Essay on Burns," Tennyson's "Princess," Low- 
ell's "Vision of Sir Launfal," and George Eliot's "Silas 
Marner." 

In 1906, 1907, and 1908 the topics will be drawn from 
the following works : Shakespeare's "Macbeth" and 
"The Merchant of Venice," the "Sir Roger de Coverley 
Papers" in the Spectator, Irving's "Life of Goldsmith," 
Coleridge's "The Ancient Mariner," Scott's "Ivanhoe" 
and "The Lady of the Lake," Tennyson's "Gareth and Ly- 
nette," "Lancelot and Elaine," and "The Passing of Ar- 
thur," Lowell's "The Vision of Sir Launfal," and George 
Eliot's "Silas Marner." 

(b) Study and Practice. — This part of the examina- 
tion presupposes the thorough study of each of the works 
named below. The examination will be upon subject- 
matter, form, and structure. In addition, the candidate 
may be required to answer questions involving the essen- 
tials of English grammar and questions on the leading 
facts in those periods of English literature history to 
which the prescribed work belongs. 

The books prescribed for this part of the examination 
in 1904 and 1905 are: Shakespeare's "Macbeth," Mil- 
ton's "Lycidas," "Comus," "L' Allegro," and "II Pense- 
roso," Burke's "Speech on Conciliation with America," 
and Macaulay's Essays on Milton and Addison. 

The books prescribed for this part of the examination 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 125 

in 1906, 1907, and 1908 are: Shakespeare's "Julius Cse- 
asr," Milton's "L' Allegro," "II Penseroso," "Comus," 
and "Lycidas," Burke's "Speech on Conciliation with 
America," and "Macaulay's "Essay on Milton" and "Life 
of Johnson." 



Note. — No candidate will be accepted in English whose 
work is notably defective in point of spelling, punctuation, 
idiom, or division into paragraphs. 

II. Latin. 

1. Beginner's Book, such as Bennett's, Collar and 
Daniell's, or an equivalent. 

2. Three books of Caesar and three orations of Cicero, 
or their equivalent. 

3. Prose Composition. 

777. Greek, German, or French. 

1. The course in Greek will consist of a beginner's 
book, such as White's or its equivalent, with elementary 
reading and composition. 

2. The work in German or French will be that required 
by the Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools of 
the Southern States. 

(a) Getman. — Elementary Grammar, Composition, and 
not less than one hundred pages of easy reading. 

(b) French. — Same as German, but two hundred pages 
of reading. 

(If the applicant for admission has not studied either 
Greek, German, or French, the first year's course of study 
in either may be taken in college, though it may not be 
reckoned in the number of hours required for gradua- 
tion.) 



126 THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 

IV. History. 

1. History of the United States. 

2. General History or History of Greece and Rome. 

V. Mathematics. 

1. Arithmetic. 

2. High School Algebra to quadratics and three books 
of Plane Geometry or High School Algebra through quad- 
ratics. 

For Bachelor of Arts. 

A total of two thousand four hundred hours of recita- 
tions, lectures, and laboratory work (counting two hours 
of laboratory work for each one of lecture or recitation) 
distributed over four years, but in exceptional cases the 
work may be done in three years. This work should be 
distributed among the following four groups of studies 
in the proportion given : 

1. Language and Literature, eight hundred and forty 
hours, including at least two hundred and forty hours of 
English and two hundred and forty hours of one ancient 
language, with weekly written work and parallel reading 
in both, the remaining three hundred and sixty hours to 
be made up from these or other languages and their lit- 
erature. 

2. Pure Mathematics, at least two hundred and forty 
hours, including Advanced Algebra, Plane and Solid Ge- 
ometry, and Plane Trigonometry. 

3. Sciences, at least two hundred and forty hours, 
including one branch of Physical Science and one branch 
of Biological Science, with regular laboratory work, 
which should occupy at least one-half of this time — two 
hours for one — and should be done in well-equipped lab- 
oratories. 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 127 

4. History, Social Science, Philosophy, and the English 
Bible, three hundred and sixty hours. 

There remain seven hundred and twenty hours to be 
elected from any of the groups. 

Recommendations to the Board of Education. 

We make the following recommendations which, in the 
main, are the recommendations of the former Commis- 
sion: 

1. We recommend that the Conference or Conferences 
of each State unite in the support of one college, which 
may be coeducational, or of two colleges, one for men 
and the other for women. 

3. We recommend that no institution be classified as a 
college unless it have: (a) the undivided support of at 
least one Annual Conference— but one Conference may 
have one college for men and one for women; (b) a per- 
manent annual income, not counting tuition fees, of at 
least five thousand dollars. This income may arise from 
the interest on an endowment fund, from Conference 
assessments, from private contributions, or otherwise, 
but should be so secure as to guarantee support of the in- 
stitution. 

4. In the opinion of this Commission, adequate in- 
struction in the courses of study outlined for baccalau- 
reate degrees cannot be properly given with a faculty of 
less than seven competent teachers of the rank of profes- 
sor or adjunct professor. We recommend that the name 
of "college" be restricted to institutions that meet these 
requirements, and that the conferring or offering of bac- 
calaureate degrees by institutions not classified as col- 
leges by the Board of Education be strongly discounte- 
nanced. 

5. We recommend that an institution to be classed as 
a university have a productive endowment of not less 



128 THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 

than one million dollars ; that it be organized on a basis of 
professional schools and of elective studies, with depart- 
ments of original research; and we recommend that the 
name of "university" be restricted to institutions that 
meet these requirements. 

Subjoined is the present course in the Southern Uni- 
versity, which,, in the main, meets the above require- 
ments. 

ENGLISH. 

Professor Christenberry and Mr. Lazenby. 

Believing that language is the test of a man and crite- 
rion of a people, much attention is given to all forms of 
composition. In the Freshman and Sophomore classes 
frequent exercises are required in letter-writing (for let- 
ter-writing is a fine art), description, narration, biogra- 
phy, criticism, and exposition, while in the Junior and Se- 
nior classes attention is given to the study and prepara- 
tion of essays and addresses on current events; and also 
to the preparation of literary and critical reviews on 
topics allied to those studied in regular class. 

All exercises, after being read and criticised in class 
are revised and returned to their authors. 

I. a. Rhetoric and Composition with Review of the 
principles of Grammar, two hours a week. 
Literature once a week; Irving and other 
American Prose writers are studied as mod- 
els in connection with the course in Rhetoric ; 
private reading, 
b. Rhetoric and Composition continued. 

Literature: The History of American Litera- 
ture with Class Study of Hawthorne, Long- 
fellow, Poe, Lanier, and others; private 
reading. 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 129 

II. a. Literature : The Drama of the Elizabethan Age. 
Several plays of Shakespeare and others are 
critically studied in class, and written 
reports are required on some studied pri- 
vately, 
b. The History of English Literature, with criti- 
cal study of selections from the leading poets 
of each period. 
III. a. Anglo-Saxon: Selections from Alfred, The 
Chronicle, Beowulf, and others — Smith. 
History of the English Language; Lounsbury 
or Emerson; collateral reading, 
b. Anglo-Saxon continued. 

Middle and Early Elizabethan Poetry: 
Chaucer and Spenser. 
Philology : Peile ; collateral reading. 
IV. a. The English Novel, Principles of Literary 
Criticism, with collateral study of Selections 
from Nineteenth Century Poetry, 
b. Paradise Lost, Tennyson's Idylls, Selections 
from Browning, and others; private read- 
ing. 

ANCIENT LANGUAGES. 

Professor Colebeck, Mr. Williams, Mr. Hamilto?i and Mr. 

Tiller. 

Greek. 

I. a. Xenophon : Anabasis, one or two books, 
b. Xenophon: Anabasis, two books. 

The writing of Greek one hour weekly through- 
out the year. 
I. a. Cicero: Roscius Amerinus and Archias; 
special stress in this term will be laid on 
syntax. 



130 THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 

b. Virgil: Aneid, four books; theoretical and 
practical study of the Dactylic Hexameter. 
The writing of Latin one hour weekly through- 
out the year. 
II. a. Horace: Odes and Epodes; through treat- 
ment of the Horatian meters, 
b. Livy: about 100 Teubner pages. 

The writing of Latin one hour weekly or bi- 
monthly throughout the year. 
III. a. Cicero : Tusculan Disputations, Book I, Dream 
of Scipio. 
b. Cicero: De Senectute, De Amicitia, De Offi- 
ciis. Book I. ; consideration throughout the 
year of the philosophical views of Cicero and 
of his contemporaries. 
IV. a. Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid, selec- 
tions ; study of the Latin elegy, 
b. Lucretius : Selections ; an attempt will be made 
to understand with clearness the main prin- 
ciples of the Epicurean philosophy. 
Courses III. and IV. are offered in alternate 
years; course III. may be expected in 1907- 
08. 

MATHEMATICS. 

Professor Giddens and Mr. Berry. 

I. a. Algebra, beginning Simultaneous Equations 
involving Quadratics, Chap. 24; Wells 
Higher Algebra, 
b. Geometry, Plane and Solid, beginning Book III. ; 
Wentworth Revised Geometry. 
II. a. Trigonometry, Plane and Spherical; Went- 
worth New Trigonometry, 
b. Analytic Geometry, Nichols. 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 131 

III. a. Analytics, continued; Differential Calculus, 
b. Calculus, Differential and Integral, Osborne. 
IV. a. Astronomy, Young Manual, 
b. Surveying, Barton. 

Courses III. and IV. are given in alternate 
years. 
Course III. may be expected in 1907-08. 

PHILOSOPHY. 

Professor Atkinson. 

The courses are all offered in the Junior and Senior 
years. 

III. a. Logic and Psychology. Prerequisite one year 
of Science, or Mathematics II. 

III. b. Elective. Economics and Sociology. Prerequi- 

site, one year of science in same year if not 
previously. 

IV. a. Elective. History of Philosophy, Ethics, Prere- 

quisite, Philisophy III. a. at same time if not 

previously. 
IV. b. Elective. Christian Evidences, Metaphysics. 

Prerequisite, Philosophy III. a. at same time 

if not previously. 
Philosophy III. b. is given in alternate years 

with History III. and will not be offered in 

1907-08. 
Philosophy IV. a. and IV. b. will be offered in 

alternate years. IV. b. will be given in 

1907-08. 
Lectures will supplement class study of texts. 

Texts, Regular and Supplementary. 

Thilly's Ethics, Fisher's Theistic and Christian Belief, 
Candler's Christus Auctor, Browne's Theory of Thought 



132 THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 

and Knowledge, Bowne's Metaphysics, Dewey's Psy- 
chology, Rogers' History of Philosophy, Bullock's Econ- 
omics, Giddings's Elements of Sociology, Creighton's 
Logic, Fullerton's Introduction to Philosophy, MacKen- 
zie's Ethics, Carver's Sociology. 



HISTORY. 

Professor Atkinson. 

The courses begin with the Freshman Class, presup- 
posing an elementary knowledge of United States His- 
tory. They are as follows: 

I. Eastern Nations, Greece and Rome. 
II. Mediaeval and Modern Europe. 
England. 

III. Institutional and Constitutional Development of 

the United States. Political Science. 

IV. At the discretion of the President and of the in- 
structor, a course in Ecclesiastical History and Pastoral 
Theology will be offered especially for candidates for the 
ministry. 

History III. alternates with Philosophy III. b. and will 
be offered 1907-08. 

Lectures will supplement class study of texts. 

Texts, Regular and Supplementary. 

Myers's History of Greece, Myers's Rome; Its Rise 
and Fall. Cheyney's History of England, Bacon's Amer- 
ican Christianity, Bryce's American Commonwealth, 
Robinson's Western Europe, Brown's Alabama, Curry's 
South, Fisher's History of the Christian Church, Elson's 
United States, Fiske's Civil Government. 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 133 

BIBLE. 

Dr. Hosmer. 

Bible I. 

The Bible, with reference to the Patriarchal and He- 
brew history, from the creation to Solomon's death. 

Bible II. 

Hebrew history, from the revolt of the ten tribes to 
the return from the Babylonian captivity, together with 
the poetic and prophetic books. 

Bible III. 

The life of Christ, as contained in the four gospels. 

Bible IV. 

This year is given to the study of the Acts of the Apos- 
tles, the Epistles and the book of Revelation. 



SCIENCE. 

Professor Richardson & Mr. Wood. 

1. a. Physiology. 

This is Elementary work, but it is the aim to 
make it scientific, and hence practical, 
b. Physical Geography. 

I. Physics. 

Pre-requisite — Sophomore Mathematics. 
Two hours recitation, three hours labora- 
tory, per week. 

Text — Gage's Principles, and Coleman's Lab- 
oratory Manual. 



134 THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 

II. Chemistry. 

For Juniors. 

Pre-requisite — Physics, taken either before 
or at same time. 

An attempt is made to give the pupils a 
scientific, though necessarily elementary, 
knowledge of the subject. The work done in 
laboratory, and record thereof kept, is count- 
ed in making up the grade. 
Text — NewelFs Descriptive Chemistry. 

III. For Seniors. 

In the second year in Chemistry, Qualitative 
Analysis, with a much deeper inquiry into 
the theory of analytical reactions, Electrolytic 
dissociation, ionization, etc., is studied. Pa- 
pers on chemical subjects are required. 
Text 1905-1906— Garvin's Qualitative Analy- 
sis, Venable's Short History of Chemistry. 

IV. Botany and Zoology. 



public speaking. 
Professor Richardson. 

While no time is given to this work in regular classes, 
yet it is the endeavor to encourage all the students in the 
cultivation of the true art of expression. Each student 
is expected to speak once in public each term. The 
Juniors and Seniors speak original parts, while the others 
may simply declaim some memorized selection. 

Continual work in the two literary societies on decla- 
mations, orations, and debates furnishes excellent oppor- 
tunities for practice in the different phases of public ad- 
dress. 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 135 

During Commencement week five contests are held, in 
each of which the winner is presented with a gold medal. 

It is the aim to discourage the custom of tearing a 
passion to tatters by ranting — which is ruinous to the 
voice — and the use of superficial gestures ; and we would 
impress on the student the fact that the spirit and fire 
of true Eloquence may be, and should be, expressed by a 
saner method. 



modern languages. 

Professor Littleton. 

French. 

I. a. Nineteenth century plays and short stories, 
b. Hugo and DeMussett. 

Grammar and prose composition one hour week- 
ly throughout the session. 

II. a. Coneille, Racine, Moliere. 

Francois' Advanced French Prose Composition 
one hour weekly throughout the first term. 

b. Modern France and the Romantic School. 

Conversation and reading one hour weekly 
throughout the second term. 
German. 
I. a. Modern plays and short stories. 

b. Schiller and lyric poetry. 

Grammar and prose composition one hour week- 
ly throughout the session. 
II. a. Goethe, Lessing. 

Prose composition one hour weekly throughout 
the first term. 

b. Literature, Keller, Kuno Francke; a modern 
novel or poem. 



136 • THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 

Prose composition one hour weekly throughout 
the second term. 

Spanish. 
I. a. Introduction a la Lengua Castellana, Marion y 
Des Garennes. 

In this course the talking machine, similar to 
the one used in the Naval Academy at Annapo- 
lis, is a most valuable adjunct to text-book and 
teacher in enabling the class to learn the Span- 
ish pronunciation. 
b. Plays and short stories, Valera, Larro, Galdo's 
Grammar and prose composition one hour 
weekly throughout the session. 

a. Alarcon, Goldo's. 

b. Moratin and such authors will furnish the read- 
ing matter for the term. 

Grammar and prose composition weekly 
throughout the session. 



MAJOR STUDY. 

All candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts must 
elect as a major study the Junior and Senior courses of 
one of the following subjects: English, Greek, Latin, 
Mathematics. 



master's degree. 

The Degree of Master of Arts will be conferred on 
those who have received the bachelor's degree from this 
or other institutions of equal grade on the following con- 
ditions : 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 137 

One year's resident study in two or three subjects — 
one major and one or two minors. 

The major study, which must have been pursued as a 
major in under-gracluate work, shall require more than 
one-half of the time of the student. 

One minor shall be of kindred subject with the major. 
A thesis on some subject related to the major study shall 
be presented not later than six weeks before the degree 
is expected. 

A final examination in the major and minor subjects 
shall be conducted orally in the presence of the faculty. 
In the major subject, however, there may be a written 
examination in addition to the oral, subject to the in- 
structor in charge. 



138 THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 

CHARTER OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY. 



An Act 

To incorporate the Southern University at Greensboro, 
in the County of Greene, and for other purposes, 

''Whereas, the Alabama Conference of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church South, have resolved to establish an 
institution of learning of high general character for the 
promotion of literature, science, morality and religion, 
within the limits of the said Conference; and having in 
fact at a late meeting determined that the said Institu- 
tion should be located in the town of Greensboro, in the 
county of Greene; now in order to give a full and com- 
plete legal effect thereto — 

"Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of 
Representatives of the State of Alabama in General As- 
sembly convened ; that the Rev. Robert Paine, Rev. James 
0. Andrew, Rev. Edward Wadsworth, Rev. Jefferson 
Hamilton, Rev. Thomas 0. Summers, Rev. Archelus H. 
Mitchell, Rev. Thomas J. Roger, Rev. Christopher C. 
Callaway, Rev. Joseph J. Hutchinson, Rev. Joshua T. 
Heard, Rev. Phillip P. Neely, Rev. Lucius Q. C. DeYam- 
pert, Rev. Henry W. Hilliard, Rev. Thomas Y. Ramsey. 
John Erwin, Gideon E. Nelson, Robert A. Baker, John 
W. Walton, Thomas M. Johnston, Gaston Drake, Thomas 
W. Webb, Augustus A. Coleman, Duke W. Goodman, and 
their associates and successors in office be and they are 
hereby constituted a body corporate and politic, by the 
name and style of The Trustees of the Southern Uni- 
versity, with the right and power of exercising all and 
singular the privileges, incidents and capacities of cor- 
porations aggregate: to sue and be sued; implead and 
be impleaded ; grant or receive ; contract or be contracted 
with ; and do and perform all other proper and necessary 
acts and things as natural persons ; to purchase and hold 
lands or other real estate and personal property for the 
use and benefit of the said University: to have and use 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 139 

a common seal and change the same at pleasure ; to make 
by-laws and ordinances for the proper conduct and good 
government of the said University; provided said ordi- 
nances or by-laws shall not be inconsistent with the 
statute of the State; to elect or appoint a President and 
such Professors, who shall compose the Faculty of the 
said University, as they may think proper, and any 
teachers or assistants that they may see fit; to establish, 
change or abolish professorships as the exigencies or 
interests of the University may require; and to do and 
perform all other acts necessary or expedient for the 
proper conduct of the said University, so as to render it 
successful in accomplishing the great object of its es- 
tablishment. 

"Section 2. Be it further enacted, that the Trustees to 
be hereafter appointed shall be elected annually by the 
Alabama Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
South, and shall continue in office until their successors 
are duly appointed, and be prepared to enter on the dis- 
charge of their duties; and the said Conference may, at 
their pleasure, change the number of Trustees to be ap- 
pointed, but there shall never be less than nine, and any 
nine Trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transac- 
tion of business; and in the event of a vacancy in the 
Board of Trustees by death or resignation, the same may 
at any time be filled by the remainder of the Board at 
any meeting of the same, and the said Conference, which 
shall be the patron of the said University, shall, when- 
ever they deem it proper, have the right to appoint a 
committee to visit the said University, and examine into 
everything appertaining to its management, and into the 
conduct of the Trustees, or of the Faculty, or of any 
member thereof. 

"Section 3. And be it further enacted that the Faculty 
of the said University shall have authority to confer de- 
grees as they may think just and proper; and to make all 



140 THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 

such needful rules and regulations in regard to the con- 
duct of the pupils, and to the course of exercise and in- 
struction that they may deem best, subject, however at 
all times to the control of the Board of Trustees, who may 
reject, revoke, modify, or change the same as they may 
see fit. 

''Section 4. And in order to secure the confidence of 
those who desire to patronize the said University, and of 
the public generally, and to preserve the good order of 
the said University, and the morals of the pupils who 
may attend the same, Be it further enacted, that from 
and after the first day of March, A. D., 1857, it shall not 
be lawful for any person other than Druggists keeping 
regular Drug Stores, and practising physicians as here- 
inafter provided, to sell, vend, exchange, or barter away 
for money or other consideration of value, or for the 
promise or expectation thereof, within the corporate 
limits of the town of Greensboro, or within five miles of 
the said corporate limits in any direction therefrom, any 
brandy, gin, or any other spirituous liquors, any wine, 
beer, ale, porter, or intoxicating beverages, simple or 
compound, in any quantities large or small, to any per- 
son or persons whatever; and any person or persons 
herein, shall be liable to be indicted in the proper 
County, and on conviction shall for the first offence be 
fined in the sum of One Hundred Dollars, and for the 
second and every subsequent offence, in addition to the 
amount of said fine, shall be imprisoned in the common 
jail of the County three months and until the fine and all 
the costs of the prosecution shall be fully paid and dis- 
charged, and no license or permit shall hereafter be 
granted by any authority or power whatever in the 
County of Greene or any other County in this State, nor 
by any corporation or other body to any person or per- 
sons, to vend or dispose of, contrary to the provisions 
of this act, any spirituous liquors,, wines, ale, beer, por- 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 141 

ter, or other intoxicating drinks or beverages, simple or 
compound, from and after the first day of March, A. D.. 
1857. And if any person or persons shall procure any 
such license or permit, it shall from and after the said 
day be utterly void and of no force whatever; and all 
acts conflicting with the provisions of this act be and the 
same are hereby repealed. 

"Section 5. And be it further enacted that any person 
regularly engaged in keeping a Drug Store in the town 
of Greensboro, and all practicing physicians in said town 
or within five miles thereof, may notwithstanding any- 
thing in the preceding section to the contrary, vend, sell, 
or furnish wines or liquors in good faith for medicinal 
purposes only; but they shall never sell, vend or give to 
any student of the said Southern University, any wines 
or liquors whatever for any purpose nor upon any pre- 
text but upon an order of a member of the Faculty of the 
said University, specifying that the same is required by 
such student for medicinal purposes; and if any Drug- 
gist or Physician shall offend herein he shall be fined and 
punished as provided in the last preceding section of this 
act; and in addition thereto on conviction for any of- 
fence committed herein, be wholly deprived of all the 
benefit or privilege granted under this section. 

"Section 6. And be it further enacted that the prop- 
erty and estate, real and personal held and owned by the 
Trustees of the said University under this act shall be 
free and exempt from taxation, whether the same be for 
State, County or Corporation purposes. 

"Approved January 26, 1856." 

AN ACT 

To amend "An Act to incorporate The Southern Uni- 
versity at Greensborough, in the County of Greene, and 
for other purposes," passed January 25th, 1856. 



142 THE SEMI-CEXTEXXIAL HISTORY 

Whereas, The Alabama Conference of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church South, did establish and found an in- 
stitution of learning at Greensborough, now in Hale 
County, Alabama, and the same was incorporated by the 
above recited act, passed by the General Assembly of 
Alabama, January 25th, 1856, under and by the corpo- 
rate name and style of the 'Trustees of The Southern 
University," and said Conference, the patron of said 
University, has, from various causes, been rendered un- 
able to carry out the purposes of the University in any 
measure equal to the original planned purposes; and, 
whereas, "The North Alabama Conference of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church South," which is composed, in 
part, of members and territory that were of the juris- 
diction of said Alabama Conference when said Univer- 
sity was founded, and said North Alabama Conference 
is without any male college in its bounds, and therefore 
desires to unite with the Alabama Conference in sustain- 
ing said University, therefore: 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of 
Alabama, That Section 1 of said "Act to incorporate the 
Southern University at Greensborough, in the County 
of Greene, and for other purposes," passed January 25th, 
1856, be, and the same is hereby amended so as to read 
as follows: Section 1. Allen S. Andrews, W. A. Mc- 
Carty, John Keener, Theophilus F. Mangum, 0. R. Blue, 
Pleasant Green Wood, F. M. Peterson, John Henry Y. 
Webb, S. H. Dent, Robert T. Nabors, John A. Thomp- 
son, S. M. Hosmer, John B. Gregory, L. M. Wilson, John 
L. Rison, John T. Harris, E. A. Powell, and M. V. Henry, 
and their successors, and they are hereby constituted a 
body corporate and politic, under and by the name and 
style of "The Southern University." With the right and 
power of exercising all and singular privileges, incidents 
and capacities of corporations to sue and be sued, grant 
or receive, contract or be contracted with, purchase and 
hold real estate and personal property for the use and 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 143 

benefit of said University, to have, use and change at 
pleasure a seal ; to make by-laws and ordinances for the 
proper conduct and good government of the said Uni- 
versity; to elect a president and such professors, as they 
may think proper, who shall compose the faculty of said 
University, and may also elect tutors, teachers and such 
assistants as they may see fit; to establish, change and 
abolish professorships and scholarships, as the exigen- 
cies or interest of the University may require, and do 
and perform all other acts necessary or expedient for the 
proper conduct of the said University so as to render 
it successful in accomplishing the great object of its es- 
tablishment; but said Trustees shall not have any right 
or power to make a contract, or create any debt or obli- 
gation binding upon any of the property or assets of the 
University, except only for the necessary repairs on the 
college buildings, dormitories, and residences belonging 
to said University. 

Section 2. Be it further enacted, that Section 2 of 
said Act be amended so as to read as follows: Section 
2. The trustees named in the first section of this act, 
shall hold their said office till the next regular sessions of 
said Annual Conference, when the said Annual Alabama 
Conference shall elect three trustees, to hold office as 
such trustees for one year, and three trustees who shall 
hold office as such trustees for two years, and three trus- 
tees who shall hold office as such trustees for three years ; 
and in like manner the said North Alabama Conference, 
at its next regular annual session, shall elect three trus- 
tees who shall hold office for one year, three trustees who 
shall hold office for two years, and three trustees who 
shall hold office for three years. Upon the expiration 
of the term of office of any trustee who may have been 
elected under the provisions of this section, the Annual 
Conference that elected the trustee whose term has thus 
expired, shall elect a trustee to fill said vacancy, who shall 
hold office as said trustee for three years. Should any 



144 THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 

trustee die or resign, the Annual Conference that elected 
him, shall, at its next regular session held after such 
vacancy occurs, elect a trustee who shall hold office for 
the unexpired term of the trustee who died or resigned. 
The Bishop assigned to hold the annual sessions of the 
Alabama Conference, shall be ex-officio president of said 
board of trustees, and any nine of said trustees, with 
said Bishop, shall be a quorum for the transaction of 
business, and in the absence of said Bishop, any ten shall 
be a quorum, who may elect one of their number as pres- 
ident pro tern. The said Alabama Conference and North 
Alabama Conference shall be patrons of the said Univer- 
sity, and each of said Conferences shall, whenever they 
deem it proper, appoint visitors to visit said University 
and examine into everything appertaining to its manage- 
ment, and into the conduct of the trustees and the fac- 
ulty, or any member thereof. 

Section 3. Be it further enacted, That the "Trustees 
of the Southern University" shall, as soon as practicable, 
convey by deed in fee simple, all the property, real and 
personal, chosen in action, franchises, rights and priv- 
ileges that belong or appertain to said corporation, to 
the "Annual Alabama Conference of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church South," and "The North Alabama Confer- 
ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church South," to be by 
said Conferences jointly and equally held, used and dis- 
posed of, as they deem best for the attainment of the 
objects and purposes for which said University was 
founded. 

Approved February 16, 1883. 

AN ACT 

To amend an act approved February 16, 1883, entitled : 
"An Act to amend an act to incorporate the Southern 
University of Greensborough, in the County of Greene, 
and for other purposes, passed January 25, 1856." 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 145 

Whereas, under and in pursuance of the act mentioned 
in the foregoing caption of this act, the "Annual Ala- 
bama Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
South," and the "North Alabama Conference of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church South," did unite in sustaining 
and in carrying on the said Southern University and to- 
gether did sustain and carry on the said institution of 
learning up to a late date; 

And, whereas, the said North Alabama Conference of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church South, has lately estab- 
lished, and is now carrying on a male college within its 
own bounds; and therefore, does not desire longer to 
unite with the said Alabama Conference in sustaining 
and carrying on the said Southern University; and, on 
the 2nd day of December, 1897, did adopt a resolution, 
which is as follows : "Resolved 1, That we hereby in- 
struct the legal representatives of this Conference to 
deed back to the Alabama Conference all our rights and 
ownership in the Southern University;" 

And, whereas, the said Alabama Conference desires to 
continue to sustain and carry on the said Southern Uni- 
versity, as it did prior to the adoption of the act men- 
tioned in the caption of this act; by a board of trustees 
who shall reside within the bounds of the said Alabama 
Conference ; therefore, 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of 
Alabama, that Section 1 of the act mentioned and de- 
scribed in the caption of this act be, and the same is 
hereby amended so as to read as follows : 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of 
Alabama, That P. G. Wood, A. J. Lamar, D. C. Turnip- 
seed, L. J. Lawson, W. P. Hurt, T. F. Mangum, J. M. 
Mason, J. S. Frazer, W. W. Overstreet, 0. C. McGehee ; 
A. L. Andrews, W. P. Dickinson, S. H. Dent, J. A. Peter- 
son, and J. E. McCann and their successors be, and they 
are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic un- 



146 THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 

der and by the name and style of "The Southern Uni- 
versity," with rights and power of exercising all and 
singular the privileges, incidents and capacities of cor- 
porations; to sue and be sued, to grant and to receive; 
to contract and to be contracted with; to purchase, have 
and hold real and personal property for the use and 
benefit of said institution of learning, known as "The 
Southern University," to have and to use, and change at 
pleasure a seal; to make by-laws, rules and ordinances 
for the proper conduct and good government of the said 
institution of learning, "The Southern University," to 
elect a president and such professors as they may think 
proper who shall constitute a faculty of said "The South- 
ern University," and to elect such tutors, teachers, and 
assistants as they may think proper ; to establish, change 
and abolish professorships and scholarships, as the ex- 
igencies and interests of the said, "The Southern Uni- 
versity," may require; 

And to do and perform all other acts necessary, proper 
and expedient for the proper conduct of the said, "The 
Southern University," so as to render it successful in 
accomplishing the great object of its establishment; but 
the trustees of the said, "The Southern University," 
shall not have the power to make a contract or create 
any debt or obligation binding upon any of the property 
of the said Southern University. 

Section 2. Be it further enacted, The trustees named 
in the first section of this act shall hold their office as 
trustees until the next regular annual session of the said 
Alabama Conference, at which session the said Confer- 
ence shall elect fifteen trustees, five of whom shall hold 
office for one year, and five for two, and five for three 
years; and the said Conference from time to time, shall 
elect such trustees as are necessary to keep the board of 
trustees full and up to the number of fifteen. Five trus- 
tees shall constitute a quorum to transact the proper bus- 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 147 

iness of the board of trustees. At each regular annual 
meeting of the board of trustees they shall elect one of 
their number president of the board, who shall hold office 
until the next annual meeting and until his successor is 
elected, and the said Alabama Conference shall be the 
patron of the said "The Southern University," and when- 
ever it shall deem it proper, it shall appoint visitors to 
visit said University and examine into everything ap- 
pertaining to its management, and into the conduct of the 
trustees, and the faculty, or any of its members. 

Section 3. That the regular annual meetings of the 
board of trustees be held in Greensboro at the time the 
commencement exercises are held. 

Section 4. That meetings may be held at the call of 
the president of the board, at any place within the bounds 
of the Alabama Conference, the time and place to be 
named in the call to be published one week before the 
meeting in the newspaper that is the organ of the Ala- 
bama Conference. 

Section 5. Be it further enacted, That all laws, and 
parts of laws, general or specific, in conflict with the 
provisions of this act be, and the same are hereby re- 
pealed. 

Approved January 28, 1899. 



148 THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 

BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 



OFFICERS. 
1906 



John Stanley Frazer, D. D President 

Louis Joshua Lawson.. Treasurer 

William Posey Hurt, A. B., D. D Secretary 

Samuel Monroe Hosmer, B. P., D. D Agent 

TRUSTEES. 

Term Expires 1908. 

David Columbus Turnipseed ..Flora 

Rev. Edward Eugene Cowan Tuskegee 

Cilby Lihu Wiggins Pine Barren, Fla. 

Henry Gaither Perry, A. B., M. D Greensboro 

William Franklin Vandiver... Montgomery 

Term Expires 1909. 

William Posey Hurt, A. B., D. D ... Dothan 

Oliver Clark McGehee, A. M., D. D ..Montgomery 

John Stanley Frazer, D. D.. Mobile 

Rev. Charles Andrew Rush, A. B Mobile 

Hon. Peter Bryant Jarman Livingston 

Term Expires 1910. 

John Albert Peterson, A. M., D. D Dothan 

Rev. Edward Aris Dannelly Greensboro 

Col. Louis Joshua Lawson .Greensboro 

Angus Murphy McMillan... Pensacola, Fla. 

Ransome 0. Simpson.... Furman 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

William Posey Hurt Henry Gaither Perry 

Louis Joshua Lawson Ransome O. Simpson 

William Franklin Vandiver. 



OF THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 149 

SEMI-CENTENNIAL COMMENCEMENT EXER- 
CISES. 

FORTY-FOURTH SESSION, 1905-1906. 
Sunday, June 3. 

Commencement Sermon 11 :30 A. M. 

Rev. W. B. Murrah, D. D., Jackson, Miss. 

Evening Service Semi-Centennial Sermon 8:00 P. M. 

Rev. W. P. Hurt. 

Monday, June 4 

Contest for Societies' Medal ...10:30 A. M. 

Address before the literary societies — 

Rev. H. M. DuBose, D. D., Nashville, Tenn. 

Junior Oratorical Contest.... 8:30 P. M. 

Meeting of Trustees 8:30 P. M. 

Tuesday, June 5 

Semi-Centennial Address 10:30 A. M. 

A. H. Moore. 

Our History — 

D. P. Christenberry. 

Wednesday, June 6. 

Orations by Graduating Class.... 10:30 A. M. 

Conferring of Degrees. 

Delivery of Prizes and Medals. 

Announcements. 



150 THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY 

A SONG. 

come give a cheer 

For Southern University 

On this our day of jubilee 

come give us a cheer. 

The faculty and students too 

Unite in heart to welcome you 

And pass you through our grand review 

O come give a cheer. 

come give a cheer 

Our noble Alma Mater 

With marks of time is still sublime 

come give a cheer. 

Her fortune oft has been adverse 

But at this time we'll not rehearse 

Her struggles in our cheery \erse 

come give a cheer 

come give a cheer. 

With hearts of love o'erflowing 

For old S. U., we call her "Sue"— 

come give a cheer. 

Her fifty years of useful days 

Entitles her to love and praise 

And fifty years of brighter days 

come give a cheer. 

come give a cheer 

We 'round our mother rally 

On this our day of grand survey 

come give a cheer. 

We clasp each brother's hand today 

And pledge for her to work and pray, 

To honor her 'till dying day 

come give a cheer. 

— Mrs. J. B. P. 



List of Illustrations 



PAGE 

Abrams, A 84 

Allen. Charles 79 

Andrews, A. S 35 

Andrews, W. F 53 

Atkinson, C. P 48 

Atkinson's Residence 100 

A. T. O. '01 S4 

Baxley, J. A 86 

Base Ball Team, '04 63 

Bickerstaff, W. R 86 

Blue, O. R 17 

Brown, E. L 39, 81 

Brown, J. V 86 

Branscomb, L. C 54 

Bryant. F. H 84 

Bullock, J. A 76 

Bullard, R. C 81 

Callaway, C. C 17 

Callaway, E 81 

Cannon, W. J 78 

Carr. J. C 78 

Carr, R. B 78 

Cammack, N. G 76 

Carpenter. M. X 84 

Casey, O. F 24 

Chapman, F. E 4S, S4 

Chapman, Bettie 58 

Cochran, R. P 76 

Chapel 42 

Cherry, V. P 63 

Chilton. C. L. Jr 84 

Chilton. W. P 84 

Christenberry, D. P. . .Frontispiece, 54, 81 

D. P. Christenberry' s Residence 103 

Church, Methodist 98 

Cleveland, C. H 78 

Cleveland, J. W 78 

Co-Eds 58 

Colebeck, E. L 47 

Coleman, Judge A. A IS 

Coleman, Phares 80 

Culver, F. P 51 

Cummings, J. B 79 

DeYampert, L. Q. C 18 

Davis. A. C 84 

DeBardeleben, Capitola 58 

DeBardeleben, C. A 76 

DeGraffenried, Seay 86 

Dickey, L. C 37 

Dick'nson, W. P. Jr 81 

Dominick, Bessie 58 

Dominick, F. M 75 

Dominick, Mattie 58 

Dunlap, E. B 63 

Echols, R 81 

Epes, John 79 

Erwin, John 19 

Erwin, Margaret 58 

Farrior, J. B 81 

Feagin, N. B 79 

Feagin, B. E. Jr 76 

Fowlkes, S. C 86 

Frazer, J. S 44 

Frazer. J. W 84 



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... 26 

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... 34 

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... 58 

... 76 

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PAGE 

Gaines. Ed 86 

Geisler, W. H 39 

Giddens, L.P 

Glass, J. V 

Godbold. W. T 

Grote, Prof. C. A 

Grote, C. A. Jr 

Grote, Flossie Ellis 

Gunn, J. H 

Gymnasium 

Hamill, Hugh 86 

Hamilton Hall 29 

Hamilton, Jefferson 28 

Hamilton, W. C 81 

Happel. T. J 49 

Hastings, F. G 63 

Henry, W. G 81 

Hobson, R. P 57 

Hopkins. I. S 31 

Hosmer, S. M 43 

Hosmer. W. R 78 

Howard. Clinton 63 

Howard, T. L SI 

Howard, F. M 81 

Huey, B. M 26 

Hutchinson, C .E 81 

Inge. W. B 49 

James, J. C 81 

Jarman, P. B. Jr 78 

Jones, Lee 81 

Jones, Harold 81 

Jones. P. B 63 

Jones, Margaret 58 

Jones, R. R 94 

Johnson, Henry 79 

K. A. '99 81 

Kendrick, B. M 86 

Keener, J. 40, 86 

Keener, Mrs. J. 86 

Keener, Ella 86 

Key, D. M 4S 

Killough, G 63 

Knickerbocker. Percy S6 

Laboratoiy 45 

Landrum, L. D 79 

Landrum, Z. P 79 

Lawson, Mary 58 

Lawson. Lewis SI 

Lawson. Ried 84 

Ledbetter, R. E 84 

L>\vis. J 33 

Library 55 

Littleton. J. T 47 

Littleton's Residence 89 

Lupton. N. T 23 

Littlepage, Dan 63 

Mathews, K. N 81 

Main Building 21 

Martin, C. P 86 

Martin, Helen 58 

McCurdy, Geo 81 

McCartha, C. L 37 

McCarty T. R 83 

McCoy, J. H 51 



PAGE 

McCoy. W. C 3S 

McDonnell, A. H 78 

McDonnell, Archie 63 

McFaddin, Dorothy 58 

McGehee, P. D 63 

McGehee, R. B 63 

McGehee. W. W 84 

McNeal, W. H 81 

McLeod, C. J 86 

Milligan 79 

Mitchell. A. H 12 

Mitchell, T. D 31 

Monette, R. F 102 

Moore, J. A 51 

Moore, J. S 33 

Moore, Mark 79 

Moore, W. H 84 

Murrah, W. B 49 

Methodist Church 9S 

Newman, O. B 86 

Ormond, R. P 81 

Ormond, J. W 81 

Overstreet. Alberta 58 

Peck, Henry 59 

Peterson, F. M., M. D 32 

Peterson, Prof 34 

Phi Delta Theta 86 

Pi Kappa Alpha, '07 76 

President's Residence 88 

Pringle, F. L 76 

Price, W. F 81 

Purcell, T. M 84 

Powers, C. B 81 

Richardson' s Residence 90 

Richardson, B. P 47 

Roberts, Hoisted 86 

Rush, C. A 53 

Rencher, W. P 79 

Seal of College 6.. 6.. 6.. 6.. 66 Cover 

Seay, Gov. Thos 69 

Sellers, A. M 76 

Sessions, R. E 81 



Shamburger, B. R. 
Shamburger, V. M. 

Shoaff, D. E 

Shoaff, J. W 



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.... 84 

. . . . 47 

. . . . 78 

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Sigma Alpha Epsilon, '07 

Sigma Chi, '79 

Smith, Dr. Luther 30 

Spain, F. E 78 

Steele, L. C 84 

Straiton, Mary 58 

Straiton, John A 95 

Stickey, W. B 79 

Sturdivant, J. F 37 

Tarry, Geo. W 79 

Tebault, R. C 86 

Turner, E. K 46 

Turner, Jack, 79. 

Taylor, Prof. T. A 51 

'iUrnipseed, W. 63 

Verdel, Chas. M 31 

Watson, G. M 76 

Wadsworth, Edward 22 

Walker, Fanny 58 

Walker, Josie 58 

Ward. E. B 79 

Ward, T. B 63 

Ward, T. R 79 

Watkins, L. H S4 

Weber, L. J 78 

Whatley, F. S 78 

Whittle, F. F S6 

Wightman. Wm. M 25 

Williams, Mabel 58 

Williams, Judge R. L 49 

Wills, J. C 23 

Wilson, G. N 84 

Wittich, Ben 86 

Wood, Judge P. G 36 

Wood, P. G 53 

Woodward, R 81 

Young Clara 5S 

Young, G. D 76 



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Index 



PAGE 

Abernathy, B. G 34 

Allen, Ethel 56 

Alpha Kappa Phi 71 

Alumni Association 46, 102 

Alumni Roll 108-118 

Andrew, J. 59 

Andrew, Bish J. 17, 20 

Andrews, A. S 11, 26, 29, 30, 36, 41 

Andrews. TV. F 53 

Athletics 62 

Atkins, Joseph 34 

Atkins, John 34 

Atkins. John H 34 

Atkinson, C. P 105 

Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity 83 

Auburn 16 

Avery. A. M 34 

Avery, D 20 

Avery. Robert 72 

Baker, A. C 20 

Baker. R. A 17 

Banks Memorial Fund 92 

Banks, R. TV 66 

Baxley, J. A 56 105 

Belles Lettres Society 70 

Betts. Ann B 92 

Blackford, V. T 34 

Blue, O. R 59 

Briggs. Richie 29 

Brown, E. L 44, 104 

Buchanan, James 20 

Callaway. C. C 16, 17, 19, 59 

Candler, W. A. Bishop 59 

Casey, O. F 24, 26, 104, 105 

Castleman, D. J 34 

Certificates 10S 

Chadwick, S. W 34, 66, 67 

Chair, History Alumni 102 

Chairs established 22 

Challenge Debate 68, 72 

Chapel 43 

Chapel exercises 50, 99 

Chapman, G. C 56 

Chapman, F. E 105 

Chapman, M. B 70 

Charter 16, 18, 35, 138 

Charter Trustees 17 

Childress. H. C 20 

Chilton, C. L 14, 59, 

Christenberry, D. P 54, 70, 103, 149 

Christian, C. D 66 

Church attendance 99 

Clark. C. B 70 

Clariosophic Society 66 

Cobbs, E. E. 56 

Cocke, J. T. B 20 

Co-education 58 

Colebeck, E. L 104 

Coleman, A. A 17, 29, 34 

Coleman, James B 34 

Coleman, Phares 80 

College of Alabama 13 

Commencement, the first 27 

Commission to found S. U 16 



PA 

Contributors 19, 

Corner Stone laid .' 

Cowin, S 

Crawford, E. L 

Creigh, G. W 

Curriculum 

Daniel, C. D 

Dannelly, E. A 

Davis, R 

Debt ../. 

DeGraffenreid, E. W 

Degrees and Certificates 108 

Demerit system 

Denominational schools 10, 11, 13, 

DeYampert, L. Q. C. 16, 17, 19, 20, 

Dickey, L. C 38, 

Discipline 

Dobbs. H. M 

Dowdell, R 

Dominick, F. M 

Dowling 

Drake, Gaston 17, 

DuBois, John E 

DuBois. John 

Dubois, R V 

Dugger. H. B 

Dumas, Mrs. Leila 

Duncan, J. C 

Drake, J. E 

East Alabama Male College 13, 

Ellis, J. D 

Ellis, C. C 

Elective system 

Emory and Henry 

Endowment 19, 20, 

Erwin, John 16, 17, 19, 20, 

Examinations 

Expenses 

Faculty 104- 

Faculty. nominated 

Faculty, removal 

Felden. L. A 

Female Colleges 

Financial Policy 32, 

Florence Wesleyan 13, 

Fraternities 

Frazer, J. S 46, 

Galloway, C. B. Bishop 

Garland, L. C 16, 

Garrett. J. J. Prof 29, 

Gavin, C. W 

Geisler, TV. H 

Giddens, L. P 102, 103, 

Gibson. A. J 

Glass. J. V 27, 

Goodman, D. W 

Gatch, Thomas A 26, 

Grote, C. A 36, 38, 

Grote, Minna Miss 

Gymnasium 63, 

Griffin. J. D 

Glover. F. L 

Hand. O. C. ' 

Hardaway. TV. R 



GE 
34 

20 
19 

101 
70 

128 
74 

101 
20 
29 
72 
-118 
97 
16 
59 

105 
97 
56 

105 
75 
34 
19 
34 
20 
20 
20 
93 
71 
71 
15 
27 
70 
44 
li 



PAGE 

Hamill ,R. G 20 

Hamilton Hall 96 

Hamilton, J 17, 29, 34, 59 

Hamilton, Jesse 20 

Hamilton, W. C 54 

Harris, J. W 71 

Harvard 10 

Harvey, John G 17, 101 

Heard, J. S 17, 101 

Heflin, J. T 74 

Henry, R. H.' 71 

Hill. F. F 34 

Hill, J. C 54 

Hilliard, H. W 17 

Hobson, B. C 20 

Hobson, E. L 20 

Hobson, James M 34 

Hobson, James M. Jr 56 

Hobson, R. P 56, 74 

Hobson, S. A 56 

Howard, H. C 103 

Holloway Fund 92 

Hopkins, I. S 104 

Honorary degrees 105 

Honored names 59 

Hosmer, S. M 44, 70 

Hosmer, Loula 52 

Hosmer, Maria 52 

Howard College 14 

Huey, B. M 27, 71 

Huckabee, Ed 34 

Hunt, R. S 17. 20 

Hurt, W. P 101 

Hutchinson. W. T 17, 20 

Improvements 89 

Inge, R. Dr 29, 35 

Iota Phi Fraternity 82 

Jackson, R. H 27, 71 

Johnson, A 20 

Johnson, Robert 20 

Johnston, T. M : 17 

Jones, A. C 19, 34 

Jones Madison 33. 59 

Jones, R. R 95 

Jones. W. W 34 

Jones, A. M 66 

Jordan, Junius 70, 103 

Kappa Alpha Fraternity 80 

Keener, J. C 59 

Keener, J. 41, 44, 61, 73 

Kennedy, W. E 20 

Koger, T. J 17 

Key, D. M 105 

LaGrange College 13, 14 

Lamar, A. J 46, 59 

Lancaster, M. R 20 

Landrum, L. D 72 

Lands 20 

Lane, Charles 105 

Law 29 

Lawson, Lewis 20 

Lawson and Son 34 

Library 15, 52 

Loan Funds 92 

Location 86 

Locke, W. H 34 

Locke, Miss Annie 52 

Lupton, N. T 23, 26, 29, 61, 104 

Lavender, W. H 34 

Lewis, Josiah 35, 104 



PAGE 

Littleton, J. T 105 

Marshall, B. F 105 

Martin, Amanda 92 

McCann, J. E 63 

McConnell, Rosco 38 

McCartha, C. L 104 

McCoy, W. C 38, 59 

McDuffey, John 56 

Medicine 29 

Meigs, S. C 54, 56 

Melton, J. J 20 

Military 20, 27 

Miller, W. G 34 

Mitchell, A. H 11. 12, 16, 17, IS, 59 

Mitchell, J. C 20 

Mitchell, T. D 18, 105 

Moore, A. H 29, 105 

Moore, J. A 38, 54, 62 

Moore. I. R 19 

Mooi e, J. Alexander 27, 70 

Moore, J. S. Dr 30, 35, 104 

Moore, R. W 20 

Moore, Syd 20 

Murrah, Wm. B 29, 74 

Medals Founded 96 

Monette, R. F 103 

Nabors, R. T 74 

Neely, P. P 17 

Nelson, Gideon E 17, 19, 59 

Nelson, John 19 

Napier, J. W. S 20 

Opening, the first 24, 25 

Oratory 56 

Osborne, Dr 29 

Otts, J. M. P 105 

Paine, Bishop 14, 17, 20, 59 

Peck, Henry 41, 60, 62 

Perry, Frank 20 

Peterson, F. M., M. D. . . 19, 29, 33, 34, 59 

Peterson, F. M.. Prof 

27, 29, 33, 35, 36, 38, 44, 70 

Peterson, J. J 34 

Peterson, W. W 71 

Phi Delta Theta Fraternity 85 

Phi Kappa Sigma 66 

Pickens, Samuel 20 

Pickett, Margaret, Miss 58 

Pierce, Bishop 20, 59 

Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity 76 

Plant 87 

Polytechnic Institute 15 

Pool, J. H 20 

Powers, E. A 34 

Powers, Jack 34 

Powers, W. 1 59 

Powers, W. W 34 

Presidents 104 

Prizes 101 

Presiding Elders 101 

Preachers in Charge 101 

Program Semi-Centennial 149 

Porter, F. E 54 

Ramsey, E. F 71 

Ramsey, T. J 17, 101 

Randolph-Macon 14 

Randolph, T. B 34, 66 

Religious Aims S, 10, 11, 50 

Reubelt, J. A 26, 104 

Requirements for admission 123 



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References (Preface) 

Review and Bulletin 

Robertson, S 

Royal, Alice 

Rush, C. A 

Ross, C. A 

Rush, D. M 

Richardson, B. P 

Sadler, Howard 

Sigma Alpha Epsilon 

Salaries, 30, 32, 34, 41, 44 

Sanborn, H. A 20, 34 

Scarborough, Mrs. J. E 93 

Scholarships -•-- 92 

Seay, Frank 103 

Seay, Thomas 29, 69, 70 

Sellers, Geo. M 11-41 

Semi-Centennial Exercises Program 149 

Sessions, R. E 56 

Shoaff, J. W 44, 105 

Sigma Chi Fraternity 7 

Simpson, J. D 50 

Sledge, J. N 34 

Sledd, Andrew 63, 105 

Smaw, W. R 34 

Smith, A. W 105 

Smith, Luther 50 

Smith, Dr. Luther M 30, 33, 35 

Societies 66 

Soule, Bishop 20 

Southern University Monthly 53 

Speaking 134 

State Normal School 15 

Steinhart, B 34 

Stockton, D. D 20 

Stewart, Chas 20 

Stollenwerck 59 

Stollenwerck, H. A 34 

Students, number 25 

Sturdivant. J. F 105 

Summers, T. 27, 29, 104 

Tallman, J. A 20 

Taylor, T. A 72 

Terrell, F. B 66 

Theology 29 



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Trinity College 14 

Trustees, Charter 17 

Tucker, John S 34 

Turner, E. K 70, 105 

Tutwiler, Julia, Miss 58 

Tuition, Dues, etc 89 

University of Alabama 14 

Urquhart, H 70 

Verdel, C. M 104 

Watson, W. C 54 

Wadsworth, Dr. E 

13, 15, 17, 22, 23, 26, 60, 61, 104 

Walker, H. J 34 

Waller, Chas. E 34 

Walton, J. W 16, 17, 19 

Walton, Miss Willie 54 

War, Civil 27 

Ward, E. B 56 

Ward, T. R., Dr 20 

Webb, J. E 34 

Webb, J. H. Y 19, 33, 34, 59 

Webb, Samuel S 20 

Webb, Dr. Wm. T 17, 19 

Webster, G. T 34 

Wesley' s School 12 

West's History 8 

Whitfield, N. I, 72 

Wightman, Wm. M 22, 25, 26, 28, 59 

Wiggins, C. L, 93 

Wiley, Jas. M 20 

Wilkinson, Dr. D. L 27 

Williams, J. H 70 

Williamson, T. H 20 

Wills, J. C 26, 104 

Winn, W. A 20 

Winston, Gov 18 

Wofford 14 

Wood, P. G. Jr., 53 

Wood, W. D 34 

Wood, P. G 53 

Yale, 14 

Yell, Clario 67 

Yell, Belles Lettres 73 

Y. M. C. A 50 



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